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'Eyes on the Prize' hits P2P
Katie Dean in Wired News: An activist group encourages people to download digitized copies of the landmark civil rights documentary, which is currently hamstrung by licensing fees. The effort could draw attention to problems in copyright law, but the production company is not pleased.
A group of file-sharing activists is practicing a little civil disobedience of its own in order to bring the documentary series Eyes on the Prize to a wider audience.As Wired News first reported, Eyes on the Prize, the 14-part series chronicling the civil rights movement, can no longer be broadcast on television and has never been released on DVD because of copyright restrictions. ...
We won't be hosting this kind of material on Ourmedia.org. Still, it's sad to see Martin Luther King Jr's heirs trying to squeeze every last penny out of their supporters rather than making certain a new generation learns of an earlier generation's struggles.
January 28, 2005 at 07:18 PM in File sharing | Permalink
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The "copyright restrictions" are not with regard to the filmmaker, etc. It's about all the snippets of copyrighted material contained in the film. If someone in the film is singing a piece of a song, that song could be copyrighted, and the owner of the copyright would have to be tracked down and paid. because copyrights were extended so long, the problem is compounded and will last for years, unless "fair use" reforms are made or the copyright period is shortened back to something reasonable.
So don't blame the older generation of activists and filmmakers. I'm sure they'd love to hsee this film re-released, but without pots of money, their hands are tied yet.
Posted by: Paul | Feb 20, 2005 7:05:16 PM
