Listen careful to the copyright notice on this football broadcast … You can’t share your “account” this game without the NFL’s consent.

What ever happened to “fair use?”

Check out Defend Fair Use, which is backed by the biggest software companies (Google, Microsoft, etc.). Here’s part of a complaint they filed with the FTC:

Every time an American consumer opens a book, plays a DVD, or watches a wide range of broadcast programs he or she is confronted by strong language warning of what they are not allowed to do with that product. By design or effect, many of these warnings are misleading and harmful to millions of American consumers, customers, and businesses. These ubiquitous statements often include gross misrepresentations of federal law and characterize as unlawful acts that are explicitly permitted by law. Many such warnings forbid unauthorized copying and sharing of any part of their works, even when such copying or sharing is fair use and is permitted by law and in fact by the Constitution itself.

via TechCrunch.

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