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Monday, November 02, 2009
Will Carroll on copyright law
This is not the first time that Will has said this:
* Yes, it would be easier to see this than describe it, but that’s illegal. I know a lot of sites ignore rights issues, but this isn’t one of them. It’s not hard to click over to MLB.com for some highlights that will give you a good look.
I’m no more lawyer than Will is. However, this looks perfectly in the realm of “fair use” or “educational purposes”. For the same reason you can excerpt a passage from a book, or cut/paste a part of a blog (like I just did to Will up there), you can post an image of CC’s delivery and not be afraid of MLB’s lawyers, as long as you “fair use” it, which means provide your original commentary about someone else’s original art. There is no difference, at all, between clipping someone’s image or text, since all of that is copyright as a work of art.
Anyway, if a lawyer wants to dispute me, go ahead. I don’t think you can, but I’d love to hear the argument that proves me wrong.
(Will used the same kind of reasoning for not presenting images of pitchers’ deliveries, even though this was being done elsewhere, including HardballTimes. And the guy that was doing it, I believe, ended up being hired by MLB.)
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