A Taiwanese YouTuber, Chung Wei-Ding (a.k.a AmoGood), is facing charges of copyright infringement from local Taiwan-based production companies who claim that his sampling of their films in his parody review videos violates their copyright. AmoGood has almost a million subscribers on YouTube and he also reviews Hollywood blockbusters in a similar vein to Screen Junkie’s Honest Trailers. He is claiming fair use, but apparently local copyright law under which he is governed in Taiwan, does not have a provision for fair use in the same way as U.S. copyright law does. If AmoGood is on the losing end of this legal battle, it could set a more restrictive precedent for anyone wishing to sample and remix copyrighted material into transformative works in East Asia. Will be watching the outcome of this case with interest.
[Source: http://mashable.com/2017/04/28/taiwanese-youtuber-amogood/#B4Qlh04Nz5qP ]
