Respect Creativity

I would call this “respecting creativity” :

YouTube removed all parody/fanfilm/spoof Star Wars content two days ago due to copyright violation. This morning, in an incredibly awesome PR move, Lucasfilm contacted YouTube, and told them to put it all back online – every last one.

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3 Responses to Respect Creativity

  1. ryanne says:

    hahahahha yep!!!!!!!!

    btw ain’t parody an exception to copyright violation (at least in the US) anyway?

  2. alanine says:

    not sure about that … need to look it up

    but a lot of content-hosting / content-providers tend to self-censor their contents due to fear of potential litigation. LucasFilms did the right thing to ease the creative minds.

  3. ryanne says:

    check this out…just thought you might be interested :)

    creative commons in hong kong:
    http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-hk

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