How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards

[salvorhardin]

Last night, robots shut down the live broadcast of one of science fiction's most prestigious award ceremonies. No, you're not reading a science fiction story. In the middle of the annual Hugo Awards event at Worldcon, which thousands of people tuned into via video streaming service UStream, the feed cut off — just as Neil Gaiman was giving an acceptance speech for his Doctor Who script, "The Doctor's Wife." Where Gaiman's face had been were the words, "Worldcon banned due to copyright infringement." What the hell?

Jumping onto Twitter, people who had been watching the livestream began asking what was going on. How could an award ceremony have anything to do with copyright infringement?

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And then it began to dawn on people what happened. Gaiman had just gotten an award for his Doctor Who script. Before he took the stage, the Hugo Awards showed clips from his winning episode, along with clips from some other Doctor Who episodes that had been nominated, as well as a Community episode.

Full post: http://io9.com/5940036/how-copyright-enforcement-robots-killed-the-hugo-awards

[Downwinder]

1. Wait until we have "Doomsday" drones flying overhead

looking for drugs, terrorists or dissidents.

[SheilaT]

2. So will the Academy Awards not be able to show

clips of movies either?