University Project Removed by 20th Century Fox
2007-10-12 20:28:54 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
An unsuspecting University student who created a video remix for his college project, has been issued with a copyright infringement notice by 20th Century Fox, administered by YouTube. The video in question takes short samples from the movie, Napoleon Dynamite and mixes it with an audio track from a Public Domain PSA dealing with Drug Abuse. The entire video is less than a couple of minutes long. How can 20th Century Fox justify this? The video clip is obviously fair use and has no commercial value whatsoever. UPDATE |
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2007-10-09 15:40:20 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Business
A very interesting article by Bernard Lunn on how creative types are the future of business. Creative Entrepreneurs in particular have been empowered by the internet to self publish, thus bypassing the traditional toll keepers, e.g. publishing and record companies, hollywood studios etc. Content creators are in a much more powerful position in the 21st century... UPDATE |
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2007-10-05 17:57:05 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Machinima, a portmanteau of machine cinema, is both a collection of associated production techniques and a film genre defined by those techniques. As a production technique, the term concerns the rendering of computer-generated imagery (CGI) using real-time, interactive (game) 3D engines, as opposed to high-end and complex 3D animation software used by professionals. Engines from first-person shooter and role-playing simulation video games are typically used. Consequently, the rendering can be done in real-time using PCs (either using the computer of the creator or the viewer), rather than with complex 3D engines using huge render farms. As a film genre, the term refers to movies created by the techniques described above. Usually, machinima productions are produced using the tools (demo recording, camera angle, level editor, script editor, etc.) and resources (backgrounds, levels, characters, skins, etc.) available in a game. [from Wikipedia]
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2007-10-04 17:48:19 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Movies/TV
Boing Boing have launched their new Internet TV channel with two very interesting episodes both released under Creative Commons licences. We await the next episode with bated breath... UPDATE |
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2007-10-02 20:18:15 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Copyfighting U.S. attorney, Tim Wu has launched a new site called keepyourcopyrights.org to encourage creators to hold on to their copyrights rather than signing them away to record companies or other such similar indusrty middlemen. Most of the problems we face today come from copyrights ending up in huge stock piles owned by large media companies like the RIAA or Hollywood studios, for example. The site provides general information on U.S. copyright law and shows actual contracts people have signed that take away their copyrights. Interesting stuff... UPDATE |
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2007-10-01 14:55:03 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Supergroup, Radiohead have decided to take a fresh take on the sales of their new album, In Rainbows. They are not releasing it through any record label, instead opting to make it available only through their website. The real kicker is that they are allowing potential purchasers to choose their own price. i.e. you pay what you think is a fair price for the album. Genius and possibly the way forward for online music...[thanks to Boing Boing] UPDATE |
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2007-09-27 18:27:47 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
A story goes that back in the day, when patent examiners actually did their job and only granted patents to genuinely innovative and useful inventions, Donald Duck may have unwittingly pevented a patent from being granted...
"There is a famous story (among patent attorneys, at least) about a Donald Duck story being used as prior art against a patent on a method of raising a sunken ship. A 1949 Donald Duck story used the same technique.
How do you quickly raise a sunken ship full of sheep? The Danish inventor Karl Krøyer came up with a very creative solution: pump buoyant bodies into the ship to achieve sufficient upward lift to bring the ship back to the surface. The solution was so creative he got a patent on it. In a 1949 Donald Duck story, titled The Sunken Yacht a ship is raised by stuffing it full of ping-pong balls. That kind of prior art could kill the patent. But whether the story was actually used by a patent office to refuse the patent (application) remains unclear."
[Thanks to Boing Boing]
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2007-09-26 21:50:03 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Other
Last.Fm is launching a new program designed to help independent musicians use the Internet to jump start their careers. The campaign will focus on teaching up-and-coming artists how to produce, promote, and distribute their music on the Web.
Last.fm has already established itself as a popular site within the online music world, but the company hopes that through initiatives such as its “Hype Chart,” which is being published in industry publication Music Week, it can cross over into the mainstream. Now that Last.fm is part of CBS, I would expect more initiatives that make use of the tremendous amount of music data the Last.fm site collects.
Many artists have successfully used MySpace to launch their careers, so it makes sense for Last.fm to focus specifically on up-and-coming talent. For artists interested in learning more about the initiative, Last.fm has setup a blog, “Now Form A Band.” [Thanks to Mashable.com]
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2007-09-26 01:45:47 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Halo 3 has been released! And with it come two new features that should be quite encouraging to the remix community. The third installment of the popular alien space romp includes the ability to save gameplay movies with game data to share with other Halo players through a filesharing network developed by Bungie, the creators of Halo. Exciting stuff. Basically means that they are encouraging users to create their own mash-ups and remixes and share them with each other online. Good move. Can't wait to play it! UPDATE |
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2007-09-24 18:42:00 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Yahoo News has unleashed a very interesting online debate in the form of political mash-up videos based on the upcoming presidential elections in the U.S. After less than 2 weeks, Yahoo claims that over one million viewers have watched their mash-up vids. Basically, you select a candidate, then an issue and watch as Yahoo draws from recent footage to create your customised video. Not strictly a creative video recut, but certainly material that talented remixers could use to make things really interesting in the coming months... UPDATE |
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