The Blood is The Life 01-03-2012

[miss_s_b]

• Would We Have Drugged Up Einstein? How Anti-Authoritarianism Is Deemed a Mental Health Problem | Personal Health | AlterNet
  Non-conformity = marginalisation shocker
  (tags: popeshitsinwoods )
  
  
• Burger King to stop using unemployed people in burgers
  * snerk *
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• BBC News - The Raspberry Pi computer goes on general sale
  Huzzah!
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• Cineworld flaunts '4D' movies • reghardware
  OMG THIS MEANS THEY CAN RERELEASE THE TINGLER!!!! YAYAYAYAYAAY!
  (tags: film )
  
  
• Tasteful Comics
  * snerk *
  (tags: funny )
  
  

Comments

[blazingskies]

On a tangent, have you heard about this:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120229/04115017911/uk-trying-to-censor-parody-video-about-2012-olympics.shtml

I didn't even *realise* that the UK has no 'right to parody'. Now I am fucking scared.

((BTW, see you Saturday.))

[londonkds]

It was recommended by the most recent copyright enquiry, but no, not at the moment.

[blazingskies]

As someone pointed out in the techdirt article's comments, what's to stop the video's creator sending it to a friend in America, who then posts it. Would it then be protected under US parody laws?

But bloody hell, are the authorities in this country really that terrified of ridicule? I'm surprsied Mock the Week and HIGNFY are still broadcasting, knowing that.

[londonkds]

What makes this one particularly vulnerable to being censored is that the mascots are registered trade marks as well, which allows for rather more aggressive legal action.

[davegodfrey]

Its probably a good thing I still haven't got round to making my "Official Elder Gods" parody of the posters that came out months ago.

[miss_s_b]

YAY see you Saturday.

Also, I knew about the no parodies thing because Mr C Brooker esquire did a rant about it not long since. And my brain is buggered today so that's about all I can come up with...

[von_geisterhand]

Or it could mean that they will remake "The Tingler". Possibly directed by Michael Bay.

[telegramsam]

Thank you for that first link. It's something I've been saying for years and the author put it much better than I've ever been able to.

[staceyuk]

Thanks for the first link. I Rang a lot of bells with me.