DISQUS

Laughing Squid: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

  • brianoberkirch · 2 years ago
    If Homer is only 39, then I'm feeling pretty good about how I'm aging.
  • Mike Malone · 2 years ago
    It's satire, therefore it's fair use. End of story.

    People need to remember that the goal of IP laws is to "further the progress of science and the useful arts." Fair use doesn't require attribute (despite what your high school teacher might tell you, plagiarism is not illegal), and it doesn't matter if it hurts your feelings.
  • Shelley · 2 years ago
    "People need to remember that the goal of IP laws is to “further the progress of science and the useful arts.” Fair use doesn’t require attribute (despite what your high school teacher might tell you, plagiarism is not illegal), and it doesn’t matter if it hurts your feelings."

    My, aren't we feeling privileged. And feeling all lawyerly, too. Didn't know there were so many lawyers about.

    There speaks the attitude that will eventually lead to a mass exodus of art from the internet.
  • Elizabeth Herndon · 2 years ago
    Now, now; just hold your horses. I've worked in synch licensing for about a billion years, and this has nothing to do with "fair use;" please read up further on your definitions because this is a term that gets used inaccurately all the time. I also highly doubt Fox is trying to pull anything over on anybody. The music dept. for The Simpsons doesn't send out confirmation letters/requests for formal licenses to the song's copyright holders until they receive the final cue sheet from their post-production department noting what was used in the final edit, and for this show, that's usually about a week after the show airs. It would have been a much better idea for Carly to simply call Fox's music department (the people who asked her for a quote on this months ago when the show was being produced) for an update on what was going on, rather than letting Noah cry foul on her behalf.
  • Elizabeth Herndon · 2 years ago
    p.s. I don't work for Fox. I license music to them, and in fact called them this morning because one of our songs was also used in last night's episode and I wanted to know when we could receive payment.
  • John Hell · 2 years ago
    It's no longer available.
  • mikelietz · 2 years ago
    Odd, it's watchable on this page but unavailable on the youtube link.
  • sean percival · 2 years ago
    I hear Mike from techcrunch pushed carly down the stairs for "acting up". Then he punched a baby.
  • Mike · 2 years ago
    This sort of thing is rampant. John Dvorak's blog stole an image from me this morning and had the audacity to use my bandwidth to serve it!

    http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=15143

    If they'd asked, I would have said "sure, use it, but give me attribution."

    Sheez, this stuff isn't hard...
  • Bill Brody · 1 year ago
    First off. Why is the video NOWHERE to be found? And what about the "UPDATE"?

    UPDATE: Noah has posted an updated to his blog saying that one of the writers of The Simpsons contacted him and said that they are correcting the issue with the song usage.

    So what did Fox do to "correct" them stealing the song?

    You don't tell us.