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In reply to the discussion: The real reason a very loud few are posting hostility toward Glenn Greenwald at DU: [View all]Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Years ago, a rightwinger threatened me with legal action and a DMCA takedown of one of my pieces posted on DU and Buzzflash. He reported me to Disney. My piece was both transformative and parody -- although a good lawyer could possibly argue otherwise.
All I did was exchange Clinton's eyes for Bush -- correcting an error, wouldn't you say? No matter. The accusation of theft was leveled. So, I have been a copyright thief in the service of the truth even if I took the risk with very little real fear of reprisal or in the belief that my non-commercial parody was protected.
In some ways, Snowden's "theft" of classified secrets to make a political statement is no different than our "fair use" of copyrighted material -- just way more effective.