Fair Use & Brexit
The latest thing to arrive in my inbox from the Organization for Transformative Works is a piece about Paramount/CBS' Fan Film Guidelines.
Now, this is of limited and mainly academic interest to me, since I don't participate in Fan Films and neither do I watch them.
But it does raise certain other questions in my mind, because it touches on Fair Use.
In turn, I accept my interest may be of limited interest to other folk, but - as ever - undeterrred, I shall voice it anyway.
I am not infrequently informed, with great authority, about the DMCA and other related aspects of copyright law which impinge upon my activities as a scribbler of fannish tales.
Except it doesn't. Not at all. In any respect. Because I am not subject to the legal jurisdiction in which it applies. I am subject to European copyright law.
Now, clearly this is a ludicrous position to take in an interconnected world. But it sets the ground for the underpinnings of my next musing.
The United Kingdom has just voted to leave the jurisdiction of Europe. So eventually the laws as negotiated and set within the countries of the UK (if there still is a United Kingdom after all of this) will apply.
So really my question, such as it is, boils down to two parts a) has anyone else found themselves bewildered by comments about copyright law predicated on the assumption that the DMCA and related legislation applies universally? and b) is anyone else wondering how Brexit might affect fanworks?