02-21-2016, 04:30 PM
After doing some digging around. Doug's just pulling a attention stunt on this, and there are people who are willing to follow this like a herd of sheep. This video not only uses Doug's video, but explains(through text) on the details that Doug is misleading and not correct. One comment from Hellsing920(who made a video talking about this) sort of explains it all.
Quote:The funny part about IHE being in the video is that he couldn't cite Fair Use even if he wanted to.
Fair Use is exclusive to United States copyright law. No other country on Earth has an equivalent to Fair Use. IHE, being from, and operating out of England, cannot cite Fair Use, because it isn't a part of UK copyright law.
Just thought I would share that little bit of trivia.
The rest of Doug's video further shows that morons have no idea how Fair Use works, and they need to shut the fuck up about it. I am in no way a copyright expert, but I have read up enough on Fair Use to know that what these idiots are doing doesn't constitute Fair Use in any way. Not only do they use too much footage, but the footage that they use summarizes the entire film, therefore rendering the act of watching the movie pointless. This negatively impacts the potential market value of the copyrighted work (essentially "why bother buying/renting/watching the movie when I can get the abridged version from this guy's YouTube video?"), therefore the use isn't in Fair Use.
Seriously, you would be surprised how many of these people would shut the hell up if they would just do a little reading on the subject. Bitlaw gives a simplified version of how Fair Use works, and the US copyright website has a more in depth version. Just reading those two sources alone destroys any argument Doug and all those using the #WTFU hashtag could possibly make.