Tag: Fair Use doctrine

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Deadpool 2 – Review

The tendency to allow things such as movie trailers to fall under copyrighted material on YouTube is really frustrating because by design a movie trailer is promotional and–in my opinion–becomes part of the public domain the minute they’re released. Which means it–or should–fall under the Fair Use Doctrine. That being said, what makes it even […]

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Not-So Fair Use

I was originally going to write a post revolving around the fate of Mike Flanagan’s (Oculus, Hush, Oujia: Origin of Evil) Before I Wake, which was caught up in the failure of Relativity when I found this link on YouTube: Apparently, when Relativity was solvent rights to the movie were sold for release in other territories, […]