Originally posted by: Will Tasker

Originally posted by: Zion
So what you're saying is we should allow people - especially people who have fallen on hard times - to use our site as a springboard for selling their work along with everyone else's work? Yeah, there definitely aren't any flaws in that logic...

The question is - would you rather be hiring a defense attorney because you were caught bootlegging - or because you were using a copyrighted property without consent of the owner?

Fair use still exists in the US. You do not need the consent of the copyright owner in order to make a fan edit. While it might be necessary to get permission to give that edit to someone else that also owns the original movie, I think you'd find that a judge would simply demand that the "other party" simply show proof that they own the original work. Selling a fan edit for any profit beyond the cost of materials would most certainly get you in hot water since at that point you're making money off someone elses copyrighted work.

Stop spreading FUD about copyright. I do not have to get GL's permission if I wish to replace every blaster sound in Star Wars with the sound of a fart. You sound like an *AA agent everytime you spread this bs about "needing permission".

There is a line between fair use and bootlegging and judges have ruled on it in the past.