Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Mon, Oct 18, 2010, 8:43 pm CDT
The NFL pulled this kind of shit too. There was a huge case about it a while back and the ACLU got involved. Basically, someone was showing her class clips from football games she posted on YouTube. Because she was using the videos to teach a class, the NFL was embarassed and she got to keep showing the videos. As far as I understand the law, the cases where you can invoke fair use are when an item is used for teaching/explanation or it's part of a piece of satire. As long as you credit the copyright holder, they can't do a whole hell of a lot other than make a smoke and mirrors stink about it.