Licenses are very specific, and are never ever all encompassing. They need to write up separate clauses or separate contracts for each medium, each use, each whatever. It's very meticulous.Erinn wrote: I don't get it...if they're so angry about footage being used, then why does Japan even let America License it then?
For example, when Blu-Ray or HD-DVD becomes prevalent, the US companies will have to renegotiate practically their entire libraries from scratch just so they can distribute on a different medium. And you know those extras you see on the DVDs? Each and every one of those was a separate negotiation point. There's lots of extras on the Japanese DVDs that the US never sees because the companies are denied the rights.
The same goes for distributing on the net. There are HUGE entanglements in getting rights to distribute on the web.
AMV steps on a lot of legal toes. Its a matter of reinterpreting, altering, and distributing a work.
Wrong. Not every US company bought broadcast rights for the earlier titles, but nowadays the US companies do on their newer titles. Some are even going back to the negotiating table to purchase the broadcast rights for their older titles.By licensing it, America has a right to sell it and even show it on TV.
The thing you need to understand is that if a company licenses something, that doesn't mean they have full do-anything-you-want control over that title. They only have control over the details outlined in their extremely specific contract, and if it's not mentioned in the contract explicitly, then that right is not conveyed and must be separately negotiated if the company wants it later.
They cannot lift a finger unless their contract tells them to, and that contract dictates how high they can lift it and for how long it can remain lifted, as well as which finger.
Very wrong. You have the right to pop that disc in your DVD player and watch it privately, and that's more or less it. Yeah, you can technically do whatever you want with its contents, but only if what you are doing to it remains private, which means you cannot distribute it, and also so long as you do not violate the DMCA in order to do it, which means you can't rip DVDs in order to do what you want to do to it, which in turn means it is legally impossible for a law abiding citizen to make a re-edit.We buy the DVDs, so therefore, we have a right to do what we want with it since it's basically ours.
Just because we ignore it and feel we are in the right to do something (which I feel we are) doesn't mean we have the legal right to do it (which we do not).
The US companies privately love AMV. If they could sponsor the AMV event without sticking their neck out, believe me, they would. I know of three that would do so in a cold minute.
. Next year for sure!
