Sad State Of Copyright

Not sure how this stacks up against other fair use guidelines, but I'm pretty sure a 3-10 second sample is within the allowable limits of copyright law[1]. However, there are other qualifications, such as reduced quality that might disqualify his work.

It's still pretty sad. Shows like The Daily Show rely on fair use for a lot of their content and it's hard for me to see a difference between this and much of what they do. Fair use shouldn't only be available to people with expensive lawyers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Music...

This happens frequently enough thanks to YouTube's rather non-discriminating python scripts that the value of YouTube is significantly diminished with respect to promoting free and open culture. With all the pandering to copyrightists its been doing, YouTube heading for a steady downward spiral.

Move on to greener pastures, brother. The world welcomes your creative contributions.

Anyone here on HN have some useful suggestion for platforms still respectful of fair use?