Remixing & Copyright
This, from Flickr made me LOL.
It reminded me of the time I wrote my first book and tried to "quote" something.
Everytime I did the lawyers said "oh no .. you have to get each excerpt licensed from the author or publishers"
What about "the 5%" rule I asked (all I wanted to do was start each chapter with a quote from a book I liked) - "oh no .. you have to get each excerpt licensed from the author or publishers" the lawyers said.
Right now I have an ongoing copyright violation complaint where someone on the net has re-formatted pieces of my work witthout permission or license and then used it as part of an "on-line training course".
I asked the lawyers whether there was a copyright violation and they said "oh no - it doesn't look like they have broken the 5% rule"
It's still ongoing .. there will be much more on this later .. the lawyers have only just started exchanging letters ...