i find it funny... [re: amv copyright infringment]

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:15 pm

I guess nightmares do come true. If the recording industry didn't know about this before, they certainly do now.

I'm going to see if I can find a video of Prof. Lessig's talk, or failing that, a transcript. Maybe I can get one of my friends to put me in touch with him (I have a few connections in the IP reform movement).

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:22 pm

Kalium wrote:I guess nightmares do come true. If the recording industry didn't know about this before, they certainly do now.

certainly doubt the music industry has never heard of us... if they havn't i'd be surprised.

Pwolf

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:36 pm

Pwolf wrote:certainly doubt the music industry has never heard of us... if they havn't i'd be surprised.

In the past, it may have been ignorable. Now, though, AMVs have been brought up by one of their most visible and influential critics.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:46 pm

www.rpgfilms.net The RIAA knows about them and they are still up. >_>

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:47 pm

Kalium wrote:I guess nightmares do come true. If the recording industry didn't know about this before, they certainly do now.

AMVs are hardly the only example of illegal art to go after, and it certainly isn't really even the best example. (That's irrelevant, but whatever.)

Check out http://www.illegal-art.org/ . There's a lot more out there. I doubt this'll make things substantially worse...

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:34 am

Pie Row Maniac wrote:
Kusoyaro wrote:
funky music videos set to popular songs
Is that what I spend my free time making?
I kinda like the idea of my videos being seen as "funky"

It makes more sense if you use funk for the video.

Lessig wrote an article for the July issue of Wired (it's not online, or I can't find it at their site). He wrote about an attempt by the staff at Creative Commons to post a recording of some of their supporters singing "Happy Birthday" (wrt to the first anniversary of the Free Culture Movement).

Believe it or not, "Happy Birthday To You", the same song little kids sing at every birthday party, is copyrighted. Until 2030. Technically, you can't sing it without getting permission.

Lessig wrote:For $800 a year, we'd have the rights to sing "Happy Birthday" on the Web, but not podcast it.

CC agreed, but Warner later withdrew the offer without explanation. I don't know if they ever posted the recording since they had an internal argument about encouraging copyright infringement.

Oh, and if you "camcord" your kid's birthday party, post the video at your own risk.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:57 am

I just wish Miyazaki would sue me... Just being in the same court house with the anime god himself would make it all worht it

Vlad

ssj4lonewolf · Post by **ssj4lonewolf** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:36 am

i dont understand why copywriters and such see that this is growth and it just makes stuff popular. We wouldnt be doing this shit if we didnt love to do it, or really like the anime we do it off of. Further more, no amv company has released an officall statement about amv....

Or have they....

*Srughs*

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:50 am

ssj4lonewolf wrote:i dont understand why copywriters and such see that this is growth and it just makes stuff popular. We wouldnt be doing this shit if we didnt love to do it, or really like the anime we do it off of. Further more, no amv company has released an officall statement about amv....

Or have they....

*Srughs*

We're not worried about Anime companies. They are not the problem... the RIAA is the wildcard; and even if you're legally in the right, they can bleed you dry via the cost of our legal system.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:40 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:I just wish Miyazaki would sue me... Just being in the same court house with the anime god himself would make it all worht it

Vlad

With him looking at you with every angry face imaginable.