just wondering... to those amv editors with little resources

godix · Post by **godix** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:01 pm

Well, as mentioned earlier, you could take clips from <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p">here</a> although if you're blatent about it people will probably complain.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:00 pm

godix wrote:Well, as mentioned earlier, you could take clips from <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p">here</a> although if you're blatent about it people will probably complain.

Nobody will complain if they don't know.

Melanchthon · Post by **Melanchthon** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:04 pm

Minion wrote:to me, it's not just about using my cuts,transitions,effects.
why should i let someone use the footage that i took the time to prepare?

You can't stop them, and you won't even know about it unless you processed the footage in such a way that it's significantly different from everyone else's. It doesn't matter what you do or don't allow people to do if you can't even tell when they're doing something you haven't let them do.

It sucks that some video-makers are so braindead and/or lazy that they can't even download whole episodes by themselves, but what are you going to do about it?

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:14 pm

Minion wrote:
Scintilla wrote:
bum wrote:As long as you use amvs that have good video quality and you dont use any clips that have effects, there should be nothing wrong with getting clips of other amvs.
So, basically, no one will come after you for using their AMVs as long as you make it impossible to tell that you used their AMVs. (Specifically.)

... Oddly, I think I actually agree with that position.
to me, it's not just about using my cuts,transitions,effects.
why should i let someone use the footage that i took the time to prepare?

You're not letting them, you might not even know they're doing it. It's theft, ripping off your work without you being able to do a single thing about it. Unless your vid is really unique and effect heavy there's a good chance that people who choose to steal clips from your amv's will get away with it.

jhning · Post by **jhning** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:11 am

umm.. the question is: what are the chances that anyone happens to see both the original and the stolen video?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:43 am

jhning wrote:umm.. the question is: what are the chances that anyone happens to see both the original and the stolen video?

Probably not very high. I'm under the impression that the people who are with it enough to make videos that become very popular are also people who are with it enough not to use other AMVs for footage.

It has happened numerous times in the past, though. I'm reminded of one video that stole wholesale from "It's Tricky to Make a Music Video", but I can't remember anything about it.