Monday, December 12, 2011

Make Sure You Get That Copyright Copy Right, Disney

As many of you faithful readers know, here on Slice of Fried Gold we aim to entertain, but we also try to educate every now and then. Today's lesson is a little (lot) of both. Here is a short (10 minute) lesson on copyright laws and fair use, but done in a way that is sure to keep your attention:



Eh? Learned something, didn't you?

We've discussed Disney on this blog before, but I felt that this was an important lesson to learn in this era of YouTube videos and picture-based memes. My thanks to Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University for making this video and a special thanks to, alert reader, Bethany for sending it in!

4 comments:

--jeff * said...

we saw this in class sometime recently.
very, very impressive work from whomever made this....

Katya said...

Apparently Buzz Lightyear is the only Disney/Pixar character who has ever said "copy."

The Former 786 said...

It makes sense, though, right?

Katya said...

Oh, totally. They're just lucky he did, or they couldn't have made the film.