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by akiselev 1764 days ago
My first reaction: "holy copyright violation!"

My second reaction: "holy rurol juror! rorul? rurowl?"

This is brilliant and a work of art. They should make the "As seen in" more pronounced (took me a while to find) with an IMDB link and it'd be cool to have preview clips like the autoplaying ones Netflix has but as a montage from the original source so we can see the context (though I realize that may be an unrealistic amount of work).

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Lynn, the site creator, would have a very strong ‘fair use’ defense if a copyright case was brought.
I've always been amazed and bit jealous of how 'fair use' has been enforced in U.S. especially when the movie scenes are used casually in YouTube videos like that of Wisecrack.

Curious, I checked Indian law and found detailed 'Exceptions To Infringement Under Copyright Act, 1957'[1].

Namely,

> (ii) criticism or review, whether of that work or of any other work;

Meaning I could theoretically create Wiscrack type video for a Bollywood movie and would be legally valid. But alas, I know for certain that if I'm critical of some movie or say even a TV serial I'll be sued my butts off the next day and I may or may not get vindicated in next 10 years.

I would really like to showcase the casual marital rape attempts or pseudoscience from TV serials, But it's not worth the fallout. Apart from copyright, They would file for defamation as well.

Recently an Indian media conglomerate filed $13,7 million defamation on a smaller YouTube based news outlet for criticizing their reportage[2]

[1] https://copyright.gov.in/Exceptions.aspx

[2] https://cpj.org/2021/01/times-of-india-parent-company-sues-m...

I fucking love 30 Rock so much, I stopped watching it after Season 1 finale. I was addicted to the first season so I didn't want to trust myself spending more time on the show otherwise I could see myself watching the entire 7 seasons 3 times in a row and waste this fall.
Nice! You saw it the way I wish I would have. The slower pace of the script after season one drives me crazy. Reportedly the change was because everyone but Alec Baldwin had trouble memorizing and filming that much. The show remained clever but season one is special.
I came here just to say “Fake Purse Ninjas is missing” but then I saw it immediately at the top of the Action category. Amazing.
Trend Micro Office scan says this site is malicious...

I think they compare URLs to popular other domains.