642 This post contains some law breaking. The above photograph above wasn't posted with the permission of the copyright holder, I just searched for a picture of movie Dredd on Google Images and grabbed this from an Ars Technica article. Fair use doesn't come into play because it's not there for the purposes of criticism. Saying that I wish the helmet wasn't quite so large probably doesn't count. Perhaps if I recommend that you all go buy the Dredd film which is remarkably cheap right now on Amazon, it might count as a promotional usage, but I'm not sure.
Which is the problem with being online now. We're all skirting on the edges of criminality, if not falling straight in. YouTube is awash with material not uploaded by the original copyright holder and we've all watched it at some point. It's impossible not to without incredible diligence. Plus, given how protective corporations are of their material, its often assumed that there's a kind of approval that some of this material is out there. The BBC often embeds third party videos of their own archive material on their own website. What are we to make of that?
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