Careful I

This is about how over-budgeted media productions historically paid to license things they didn’t need to license, just because they had tons of money and their lawyers preferred to “play it safe” than claim Fair Use, which is how Fair Use became the weak pathetic limping layer of pointlessness it is today.

November 8th, 2011 Delusions, IP, Money, Violence

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• Careful II « Mimi and Eunice

  November 9, 2011 at 6:01 am · Reply

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