Comments on: WALL-E: interstellar copyright scofflaw

By: pillows

pillows — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:29:30 +0000

when wall-e looks in the sky he sees freedom!!! FREEDOM AT LAST!!!!
he cant go to jail he’ll just open it up again with that laser thingy of his.

CASE CLOSED !!
TOUCH DOWN !!
GOAL !!
BATMAN WINS !!
SCORE !!

!!!! WALL-E IS FREE !!!!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:07:18 +0000

#Cory

well it doesn’t change the fact that a movie studio in 2008 displays what most of us do anyways as something that is OK – while they in courts wants grandmothers and little children to pay huge fines for file sharing.

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:17:32 +0000

For christ sake its a children’s movie. If Iron man was ripping songs off into his suit thingy it would be one thing, but its wall e. A robot 700 hundred years into the future! However, notice that in this fictional future that everything!!! is owned and or created by a major company! Wall e is part of this company so fair use is assumed… right?

By: Jonathan Dursi

Jonathan Dursi — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:13:35 +0000

After 700 years the copyrights [have expired]

See, that’s the thing, no. The Macrovision DRM on the tape means that under C61 it remains illegal to make the copy because you’re bypassing a copy protection scheme, regardless of whether or not the copyright has expired

By: MacroNaught

MacroNaught — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:32:30 +0000

Yeah, well I work at Macrovision, and Wall-E is going to jail! ;)

By: Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:20:49 +0000

You’re assuming copyright law doesn’t get even worse! Think about it…

And yeah this is why i only skim BB these days. Every other story is like this one.. but I like WALL-E so this one gets a go. :)

By: yoshi

yoshi — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:42:02 +0000

Yea whatever…this is why I don’t read boing boing anymore.

After 700 years the copyrights who have been expired since there is no one on earth to keep extending them. And Wall*E only uses snippets so one can say it falls under fair-use.