{"id":15,"date":"2011-06-23T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-06-23T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T15:01:00","slug":"copyright-trumps-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2011\/06\/23\/copyright-trumps-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright Trumps Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the post on Waxy.org by Andy Baio about <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/2011\/06\/kind_of_screwed\/\">how he felt compelled to settle a case in which he was accused of copyright infringement<\/a>, go read it now. It&#8217;s a great, personal tale about how copyright laws have over-reached and block artistic expression. It&#8217;s also a nice intro to the indeterminacy of fair use guidelines, especially the issue of what counts as a transformative use.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jessamyn\/status\/83909107492466688\">Jessamyn West for her retweet<\/a> that brought this to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the post on Waxy.org by Andy Baio about how he felt compelled to settle a case in which he was accused of copyright infringement, go read it now. It&#8217;s a great, personal tale about how copyright &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2011\/06\/23\/copyright-trumps-creativity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,31],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-copyright","tag-cultural-commons","tag-fair-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}