Hayley on Discord1 alerted me to a new strategy James is employing on one of his older videos, which is to... flat-out admit he's using copyrighted materials without prior authorization. His new defense is to shout "no copyright infringement intended" like some sort of early 2000s FMV compilation.2
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That's right, proper accreditation, bitch
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I stole this joke from Discord (and Cohost!) user QuantumJump
I posted my screenshot on Reddit and someone pointed out in the comments that he even copied the fair use notice. That's not all that egregious, of course, but it hints that he probably didn't check with uhh... anyone if his work is transformative enough to fall under Fair Use.
I didn't have to sit through an entire module on fair use in library school to watch academically dishonest brats try to claim it's fair use to do plagiarism....
Fair use is when you sample a portion of something else as part of a completely transformative work where it's clear that you're sampling something else (and where it came from) and the function of the new work does not overlap with the function of the original. It's actually incredibly difficult to argue that something is Fair Use. Most things people claim are Fair Use is absolutely not. An adaptation is not transformation and by its nature very much overlaps with the original in function.
You can't just make unauthorized documentaries and audiobooks based on people's work that's not Fair Use. That's why everything on LibriVox has to be public domain.
