Talk of the Point

Lights, Camera, Actionable

I liked that headline, so I’m using it without permission because I probably have a Fair Use right to do so under copyright law. It’s from Theresa Keegan’s column in today’s Contra Costa Times about Pointer Pete Livingston’s struggle over Fair Use–the vague rule that one can use copyrighted work without permission for reviews and other non-competitive uses–with Big Hollywood.

TOTP had his story first, of course. Then Alexander Cockburn in the San Francisco Examiner and Keegan in the Times caught on. Livingston’s film, “Over 9 Billion Dead Served,” claims Fair Use of clips from among the 25 top-grossing U.S. films. You know what the studios said.

• Original Talk of the Point story December 9
• Alexander Cockburn in the San Francisco Examiner (a Fair Use reproduction on Tom Butt’s E-Forum site) December 12
• Theresa Keegan in today’s Contra Costa Times
• Not The Enemy Media

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