A couple of weeks ago, Drew Koehler, host of Hardcore Christian Gamer podcast, got a karaoke track of Neil Diamond's "Hello Again" and made a parody called "Halo Again". A listener of the podcast made a video using Halo footage, and the parody song and put it up on YouTube. Another listener sent an e-mail through a website to "Neil Diamond". A representative of Neil Diamond (or the artist himself which isn't confirmed yet) got that e-mail and did not appreciate the parody of the song. The information was given to Sony and the story unfolded from here:
"Sony just sent a Cease and Desist order to the Hardcore Christian Gamers Association for doing a parody of a song by Neil Diamond called 'Halo Again'.
The song did not use Neils Lyrics nor did it use his actual music yet the Cease and Desist order was posted and we were told to take down the video on YouTube as well."
EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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Because "parody" happens to be one of the few key areas that are exempted from copyright laws. Parody, like a criticism and review using a copyright material, is protected under the "Fair Use" doctrine. You can legally take a copyrighted material and make a parody out of it.
This kind of case has gone all the way to the Supreme Court before. See Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. (1994), in which the United States Supreme Court reached the unequivocal conclusion that a parody falls within the scope of the fair-use defense.
If Sony wants to play tough, Sony will just end up losing in court for this one.
The title is hilarious! But nice find.
Sony doesn't have a leg to stand on here. If you want examples of the sort of things that can be done in the way of a parody, just fire up a Weird Al or a Paul Shanklin CD.
People have tried to stop parodies of music and video for decades, and they have all, every one, lost in court.
Sony must know they will lose on this one but they still go after it... Sony must be seriously ticked off by Halo to make such a stupid move.
sounds like neil diamond was the one who was really pissed, he just sicked SONY on them...
and yeah its a parody anyway so.....whats the point?