Topher Grace has re-edited Star Wars I-III into a single movie. I haven't seen it yet, but folks seem to think it's better than the original(s). Admittedly not a very high bar.
But the warnings that the video will soon be taken down because of complaints about copyright violations has raised a number of questions in my mind.
1. Re-editing three films into one much shorter film is undoubtedly a work of creativity, that arguably creates a new copyright. Doesn't it?
2. Is this really different than the kind of sampling that goes on all the time in the hip-hop world?
3. And what if it really is better? Don't we want to encourage that kind of creativity? And if we decided to enshrine that kind of exception in the statute, what would that exception look like?
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