Fair Use Fridays: Art of Packaging Garbage

Thanks to phosita's post here on whether packaging makes a difference for this great vintage Rocketboom video on packaging garbage as art, on the art of packaging, on the art of pricing garbage, on the price of garbage art.    This video is a modern meditation on the Readymade conundrum launched by Marcel Duchamp.


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Fair Use Fridays: Is The National Anthem A Stolen British Drinking Song?

Rocketboom and Know Your Meme discuss in the video above the history of GI Joe Mashups on the internet and apply the principles of fair use in copyright law to our National Anthem.

From Wikipedia's Star Spangled Banner entry:

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "The Anacreontic Song" (or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", it would soon become a well-known American patriotic song. With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being difficult to sing. Although the song has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today, with the fourth ("O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand...") added on more formal occasions. The fourth stanza includes the line "And this be our motto: In God is our Trust.".[2] The United States adopted "In God We Trust" as its national motto in 1956.




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Fair Use Fridays: Dramatic Chipmunk Tackles Fair Use

From American University Center for Social Media, "Fair Use Is A Right" - the link is here, but they gave me no embed code, urging only to share on Facebook and Twitter.   So without a formal invitation to share on YouTube, would me posting it to YouTube be fair use?

If you are new to Dramatic Chipmunk, here is the original - with 26 million views on YouTube




Then of course Best of Dramatic Chipmunk:




A more in-depth study of Dramatic Chipmunk as one of the Internet Memes of 2007 from Rocketboom.



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