NBC tells Obama not to use footage

[MessiahRp]

89. While we're at it we should weaken the ridiculous copyright laws here anyway.

As I understand it, the original intent was 14 years with one extension of an additional 14 tops. That's it. The Hollywood lobby has made it where you can still be fined or jailed for sitting around with a large group of friends watching Universal Monster movies like Dracula from 1931 for Christ's sakes. 28 years is plenty. You had your chance at it's peak time to make every penny off of it. Now others should have the ability to share and that's the end of it.

And with news and other media, fair use should extend to the fact that unless you're airing say over 50% of the footage from any given program, you can use video footage for any purposes. A 10 second clip of Andrea "I usually shill for the GOP at every turn" Greenspan isn't egregious by any stretch of the imagination and probably is causing issues only because in her circle of friends they're pissed she told the truth.