Moments in Musical Court Idiocy
Sep. 1st, 2019 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=0ytoUuO-qvg
A nice video summarizing a recent court case against Katy Perry, another in a long string of frankly godawful abuses of copyright in music. Take an ignorant judge, an easily confused jury, a compliant "expert" witness to befuddle said judge and jury, and lawyers unscrupulous enough to prioritize their payout over general good sense and you get... well, the American legal system.
But I digress. What you get is a string of increasingly bad court decisions that stretch back at least as far as when hip-hop started making money in, like, the 1980s. Only they've gotten significantly worse in the past decade with farther-reaching decisions. The video maker calls out the expert witness for, effectively, lying - which he did - and props back to "Moments in Love" by Art of Noise.
A fitting way to close out, so here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux3u31SAeEM
A nice video summarizing a recent court case against Katy Perry, another in a long string of frankly godawful abuses of copyright in music. Take an ignorant judge, an easily confused jury, a compliant "expert" witness to befuddle said judge and jury, and lawyers unscrupulous enough to prioritize their payout over general good sense and you get... well, the American legal system.
But I digress. What you get is a string of increasingly bad court decisions that stretch back at least as far as when hip-hop started making money in, like, the 1980s. Only they've gotten significantly worse in the past decade with farther-reaching decisions. The video maker calls out the expert witness for, effectively, lying - which he did - and props back to "Moments in Love" by Art of Noise.
A fitting way to close out, so here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux3u31SAeEM
