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DMCA Exemption Proposal – Video Makers, We Need YOU!
The OTW’s Legal and Vidding Committees have started working on the renewal of our hard-won exemption to the US DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)’s provisions on digital rights management for noncommercial remixers–and we need your help! If you vid or make other forms of fan video by ripping DVDs or Blu-ray discs; if you rip footage from a streaming service like Hulu, iTunes Streaming, or Amazon Unbox, please get in touch! You don’t have to use your real name: Depending on your choice, we can describe you using your pseudonym or as “a vidder” or “a fan filmmaker.” We are trying to compile stories of… Read more
New Fan Video Project Pages!
Following our previously outlined roadmap, the OTW is proud to be hosting a number of new resources for fan video makers. These new Fan Video and Multimedia pages include: Options for Hosting Streaming Video A Quick and Dirty Guide to Embedding Video on the Archive of Our Own Instructions for How to Stream Video from Your Own Site How to Dispute a YouTube Takedown or File a DMCA Counternotice (offsite link) How to Add Subtitles and Translations to Your Videos There are also resources for scholars interested in fan video, including a Bibliography of Fan Video and a Fan Works Style Guide which will tell… Read more
Links Roundup for 24 August 2011
Here’s a roundup of stories about how companies are looking at fan-made videos that might be of interest: Rebecca Tushnet, chair of the OTW’s Legal Committee, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Diary column on the growing atmosphere of acceptance of video mashups and the marketing possibilities they present for companies and their products. She noted, however, that acceptance is coming more quickly from the film and television industries than the music industry. This suggests that fans making music vids are likely to continue having to assert and defend the “fair use” status of their work. Another recent news item highlighted an example… Read more
Fair Use School
Kudos to Patrick McKay for winning Public Knowledge’s “Copyright School” Video Challenge, a contest that asked remixers to come up with a more balanced education video than YouTube’s “Copyright School” (which, notoriously, featured a squirrel in a pirate hat.) You can see the video here:
Copyright School Video Challenge!
Calling all vidders and remix artists! Public Knowledge is holding a Copyright School Video Challenge: to explain what you can and can’t do under fair use better than YouTube’s “copyright school”, which has been criticized for focusing more on the CAN’T than on the CAN. As Public Knowledge explains, “While ‘Copyright School’ does a great job of telling you what you can’t do with copyrighted content, it does a very poor job of telling you what you can do with copyrighted content–namely, remix, reuse and repurpose it without permission from the rightsholder as allowed under the doctirine of fair use.” The winning video will get… Read more