Is it wrong to copy an idea to edit it better?

[Pie Row Maniac]

Just out of simple courtesy, I'd ask the original editor first.
mostly because i know 9/10 they wont care

About a year ago I asked Zerophite if he wouldn't mind if I remade his Wolfwood video "The Killer In Me". He was enthusiastic about it and told me to go ahead. I'm chipping away at it currently. But yeah, it just feels nice to be able to say that the original creator is happy to have you working on something he did, or at the least was okay with it.

You know that warm fuzzy feeling they joke about? It exists. In the bellies of video editors.

[TEKnician]

Quite possibly, it might just turn into an MEP remake of the original vid. Is there anything wrong with that?

[requiett]

No.

[shawnnm2]

For me I dont do that copy someone same editng style or something at lest try not too for example everyone pretty much knows death note spoil amv I just wont copy that kind of video with other anime...

[NME]

Art is an ever-growing mass of cultural ideas so if anything you're doing art and humanity a disservice by saying there's art you can't make because someone else made it already and that it's wrong to take inspiration from them. Copying a video isn't even art, it's more forgery. Those who make duplicates of great works are skilled copyists, but not artists.

It can only be weakened or at very best on par if you repeat it exactly, in adding new cuts and ideas you make the art your own and replace the bonds the art had with the previous artist with your own.

There is no wrong in art as far as I'm concerned. Ideas are ideas and we're all free to think and express whatever ones we want in our art. Oh yeah, it can't be too bloody or have titty though, apparently.