AMTV?

Koiyuki · Post by **Koiyuki** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:47 pm

I wonder with the quality that AMVs are ta now, do ya thinjk it could be its own channel? And if so, would AMV creators finally get paid for their stuff? Just beeen watchin' a whole bunch of MTV2, so its been on my mind for a little while. What do ya'll think?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:49 pm

Legal issues say... No way in hell!

Koiyuki · Post by **Koiyuki** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:55 pm

Well, lets imagine they found a way for the big anime companies and the japanese parent companies to be happy wtih it (and it can happen, look how MTV started up.) Do ya'll think it would take off?

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:00 am

...and the RIAA?

Daniel_BMS · Post by **Daniel_BMS** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:49 am

I don't know about a channel, but maybe a whole new show for Adult Swim could work. Legal issues would be a pain and in the end not the best AMVs would be aired due to legal issues, however it would be a great start to actaully get AMVs on the air. From that point it can only get better for a while.

bum · Post by **bum** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:51 am

The second the RIAA finds out about this site, kerry Sherman is gona piss all over the donut then sue like he's never sued before, with the exception of the 12 year old girl and dead woman he's (well, the riaa's) sued.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:08 am

I swear to god the forum mods should just find an older version of this topic and set a timer so that it shows up on the first page once a month, then dissapears again after everyone's had a good look at why it's such a bad idea.

Koiyuki wrote:Well, lets imagine they found a way for the big anime companies and the japanese parent companies to be happy wtih it (and it can happen, look how MTV started up.)

What does MTV starting have to do with big anime companies? Totally irrelevant comparison.

Daniel_BMS wrote:I don't know about a channel, but maybe a whole new show for Adult Swim could work. Legal issues would be a pain and in the end not the best AMVs would be aired due to legal issues, however it would be a great start to actaully get AMVs on the air. From that point it can only get better for a while.

No. No, no, no, and no again.

You Are All Wrong Because: 'AMV-TV Edition'
1. The broadcast of a video with only cuts and fades and NOTHING ELSE would require both permission of the American television licence holder, the Japanese company granting the licence, and the American music licence holder. Royalties would have to be paid to all parties each time the video was played. Half of the 'Org can't afford Premiere, I doubt a $1,000 check to Evanescence 4 times a month is plausible.

2. The broadcast of a video with significant amounts of effects would require an ACT OF GOD, because the Japanese companies would NEVER allow their work to be broadcasted with such drastic alterations as masking, lip-syncing, piano keys, and so on. Allowing such a thing would not only violate whatever blood pact they made with their artists, but it would more or less admit that they don't intend to protect their intellectual property.

3. There aren't a million people in the country who like AMVs enough to agree to sit down and watch them at the same time for half an hour.

4. Doing something as brash as showing AMVs on TV would only publicize the hobby and force licence-holders to take action against whomever they see fit.

5. As bum has so eloquently put it, the RIAA exists. The end.

Now, can we all agree that showing AMVs on national television is a bad idea and go back to discussing more important things, like whether or not the Smurfs could count as anime and HU LIEKS DBZ N LIKNIN PARK?!?

Thank you, and goodnight.

Tom the Fish · Post by **Tom the Fish** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:01 am

dokool wrote: but it would more or less admit that they don't intend to protect their intellectual property.

I'm pretty sure they've already admitted this with the monsterous amount of doujinshis that exist, not to mention the liberties taken with copyrighted characters contained within them outstrips any creative liberties taken by any AMV I've seen yet...

But I'm just a wide-eyed idealist.

Tom

Voices_Of_Ryan · Post by **Voices_Of_Ryan** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:00 am

1. Check your LOCAL cable channels, a few bigger cities have them (they advertise here).

2. The closest to professional amvs we'll ever get are those little toonami intro's because of legality arguements and etc.

3. MAD's (japanese "amvs" with J-POP) frequantly show on Japanese tv.. Then again if half the people here lived in japan right now. 0o;;

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:36 pm

Your ideas would be funny but it is something impossible, first of all, what Dokool sayd is pure gold. All true, and also Voices Of Ryan said the truth, there would be infinite problems, and.. It would not worth the thing .-. The videos levels would be exagerately differents and... I stop. Dokool rulez.

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