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Lady Gaga Goes Gooey & QED re Canada's Proposed UGC Exception in Bill C-32

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

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Wherein Lady Gaga goes all gooey and confirms the wisdom of C-32's UGC exception and the notion that many types of unlicensed uses can seriously benefit copyright owners.

Today many lobbyists call this kind of thing "piracy". It's used to be called "free advertising."

Here's the CBC story.

Here's part of it:

"Can't stop crying watching this. This is why I make music. She is the future," Gaga's posting stated.

Lady Gaga posted on her Twitter page that she 'can't stop crying' watching the video of Maria Aragon. (Twitter.com)She also included the link to Maria's video which had been viewed about 3,100 times prior to Gaga's tweet. By 8 p.m. CT Thursday, the number of viewers had skyrocketed to about 500,000.

"Gaga sent me here," one person commented, while the majority of those who left posted remarks lauding Maria's voice as "amazing."

The number of viewings could continue to soar, as Lady Gaga has 8.2 million Twitter followers.

Full post as published by Excess Copyright on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).