Eric Faden obviously had a lot of free time, and guts, when he decided to produce a documentary made from nothing but short clips from all your favourite Disney movies. And if you’re like me, who doesn’t have a lot of free time (or guts) but won’t miss this profoundly creative creation, you’ll watch it too.

The mashup cuts up and splices audio from more Disney movies than I could begin to list (or even identify) to explain the intricacies of copyright law and the fair use doctrine. It takes the works of “the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms” and flips them to argue against longer copyrights and attacks on fair use. It leads to some beautifully surreal moments, often highly recursive, with the characters of The Jungle Book and The Lion King asking questions such as “what is the public domain?” or proclaiming “fair Use is not a right; fair use is only a legally defensible position, and this is not fair…The point is if fair use actually works then movies like this one will have legal protection.”

Let’s see, spotted in the first one and a half minutes, Tarzan, Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Aladdin, Mulan, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Dumbo, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, Treasure Planet, Lilo and Stitch, Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Jungle Book… I’m good. Have I seen all of them? Probably… My childhood was Disney.

Hilarious. Download it directly here at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/biguploads/Fair(y)_Use_Tale_Stanford_Cut.mp4.

[Via: Wired]