Oh so criminal was created as a response to the Australian Government's (in particular the Attorney-
General's office) "Fair Use and Other Copyright Exceptions: An examination of fair use, fair dealing and other exceptions in the Digital Age" Issues Paper, provided in May 2005. to quote: Some interest groups feel a copyright balance might be better maintained in a rapidly changing digital environment if the Copyright Act were to include an open-ended 'fair use' exception that would allow the courts to determine whether a particular use of copyright material is 'fair' and should be lawful. Others argue the present specific exceptions in the Act should be amended to make certain uses of copyright material lawful. Instead of writing a wordy submission to the Government Keir Smith decided to make an example of something that is currently illegal, but thinks should be covered by 'fair use'.
Write a discussion of Smith’s work on your blog. Do you think his work is ‘illegal’? should it be?
I can understand the use of Company logos should be prohibited, so making this video "illegal". For it is putting the company's image to the pubic in a light that perhaps they do not wish to be put in.Aside from that, however, I think it should be covered by the 'fair use' act. For the creator is not making profit from this short film, it's more for his enjoyment. It's hardly a form of advertisement, and he is not going around claiming that it is his own work. The rest of his material, in my opinion is shouldn't really be illegal, i.e the music that he has used can be heard ANYWHERE, and anyone can access it if they really want to, regardless from the fact that he happened to have used it. It is more subliminal advertisement in the artist's flavor. As for the news clips of various reporters and public figures (George Bush), they have already been released in the media, viewed by millions of people already. People have made their opinions from the original context and he hasn't mixed it in a way where he has changed what they were talking about in a believable way. Less face it, George Bush's image of being a right moron was the result of his own stupidity, not because someone just happened to remix him in a short flick.
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