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Barney won't sing I Love You while copyright suit goes to trial...
...greatest of all Disney magic is the magic of copyright. More remarkable than Mickey or Dumbo or any other creation, pre- or post-Walt, has been the company's success in exploiting established franchises and accumulating new ones. Perhaps the most cunning Disney trick is to take fairy tales in the public domain and reinvent them as corporate property. A billion-dollar example is Beauty and the Beast, which has metamorphosed from a bedtime story known to every child into a megahit animated film (and an even bigger hit on video), a sound track, a theme-park attraction...
...scene is imaginary, but it captures the spirit of a fascinating Supreme Court decision last week to affirm the borrowing rights of parody, an artistic % form that has long suffered in copyright limbo. Normally, artists are entitled to payment for use of their words, tunes or images. A 1976 law lists some exceptions to this rule, including scholarship and commentary, whereby unpaid excerpting (known as "fair use") is allowed. Parody, however, goes unmentioned. Should send-up artists, whose ranks have included everyone from Lewis Carroll to "Weird Al" Yankovic, be included too? More specifically, can Campbell, best known...
...unanimous Supreme Court opinion has broadened the application of "fair use" in copyright law. Writing for the court in favor of the rap group 2 Live Crew, which had produced a raunchy version of the 1964 classic Oh, Pretty Woman, Justice David Souter said parody "can provide social benefit by shedding light on an earlier work and, in the process, creating...
...pleases media elite by supporting parody in copyright case...