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sue their asses!

Posted by Bellevue Ave | November 26, 2007 1:33 PM
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Clearly both products were the result of the same Intelligent Designer, thus disproving evolution.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | November 26, 2007 2:00 PM
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Actually, Harvard and other major institutes need to sue them.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 26, 2007 2:18 PM
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It's fair use. The narration accurately said what the parts were, and they never said, and here's when god created the motor. I think it's fair use. Just b/c they come to a different conclusion doesn't mean they're violating any copyrights. Are they making lots of money off it? Was that a free seminar?

Posted by idaho | November 26, 2007 2:24 PM
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Wow. The long version + narration was pretty impressive. And yet it only covered one tiny event in a human body. No wonder the discovery institute guys used it -- they have so little imagination about what potential their god might have.

Posted by idaho | November 26, 2007 2:47 PM
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Know what would have made it even cooler? A miniaturized Raquel Welch, wearing a skin-tight wetsuit and being attacked by antibodies.

Posted by Dr_Awesome | November 26, 2007 2:50 PM
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Annie, posting it for educational use means using it without changing anything.

As in not writing your own script to replace the one that's already there. As in not stripping off the copyright notice.

Posted by N in Seattle | November 26, 2007 3:16 PM
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@7: Just to clarify: They didn't replace the script; there's no script in the short version. They did strip off the credits (there's no copyright notice per se) and add a supertitle. I'm no lawyer, but I agree, it seems dubious.

Posted by annie | November 26, 2007 3:29 PM
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@7 - as opposed to the obvious satire and parody that Intelligent Design is.

ID is just God's way of saying She thinks Neocons are fools and dullards.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 26, 2007 3:32 PM
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isn't parody allowed?

Posted by infrequent | November 26, 2007 3:52 PM
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That was my point.

The sad thing is they're so deluded at the DI they don't think it's a parody.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 26, 2007 5:32 PM
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@8 - In the last seconds I read at the bottom of the last shot of the original:
(c)2006 The President and Fellows of Harvard College

Isn't that a copyright notice?

Posted by M'thew | November 27, 2007 5:14 AM
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@12: You're right; I must have stopped watching too soon. That's the one Dembski claims to have retained (see my post above) but I don't see it in the presentation version, do you?

Posted by annie | November 27, 2007 9:40 AM

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