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Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

Bill Brody — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:30:06 -0000

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.

Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

Mike — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:00:08 -0000

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/...

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

Sheez, this stuff isn't hard...

Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

Sean Percival — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:57:41 -0000

I hear Mike from techcrunch pushed carly down the stairs for "acting up". Then he punched a baby.

Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

mikelietz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:57:50 -0000

Odd, it's watchable on this page but unavailable on the youtube link.

Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

John Hell — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:29:48 -0000

It's no longer available.

Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

Elizabeth Herndon — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:43:42 -0000

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.

Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

Elizabeth Herndon — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:42:32 -0000

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.

Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

Shelley Powers — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:52:02 -0000

"People need to remember that the goal of IP laws is to â€œfurther the progress of science and the useful arts.â€ Fair use doesnâ€™t require attribute (despite what your high school teacher might tell you, plagiarism is not illegal), and it doesnâ€™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.

Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

Mike Malone — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:22:17 -0000

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.

Re: A Picture of Homer Simpson Every Day of His Life

brianoberkirch — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:22:04 -0000

If Homer is only 39, then I'm feeling pretty good about how I'm aging.