Posts in Remix
OTW Secures DMCA Exemption from U.S. Copyright Office
The OTW is proud to announce an important legal victory for fan vidders and other makers of noncommercial remix videos, achieved in conjunction with our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation: the Register of Copyrights has recommended that the Librarian of Congress maintain the vidders’ exemption from certain provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). As you probably know, the OTW is committed to the legal position that fanworks, including vids, generally represent “fair use” of their source material under U.S. copyright law. Although this theory has not been tested in the courts yet, it means that vidders ought to be able to use… Read more
Links roundup for 9 August 2012
Here’s a roundup of stories on fanworks created for new audiences that might be of interest to fans: The Hindu took a look at the revamping of classics through fannish remixes. “Most of us are familiar with ‘A truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife’ famously written by Jane Austen in the classic Pride And Prejudice. However, it is also ‘a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains’ or that ‘a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in… Read more
Links roundup for 31 July 2012
Here’s a roundup of fanworks making the news stories that might be of interest to fans: While there are still plenty of stories in the media that take the “weirdness” angle to discussing fanworks, as fan creativity become more and more visible online there are an increasing number of stories that take a more admiring approach. For example, Visual News looks at fan movie remixes, and Comics Alliance looks at the artistic range of Emily Partridge’s fan art, while io9 focuses on the Sew Nerdy gallery show. Then there are the posts that take a second look past first impressions. In The London Evening Standard,… Read more
Links roundup for 19 May 2012
Here’s a roundup of stories looking at transformative works that might be of interest to fans: In this Tumblr blog post, the issue of transformative works is addressed directly and as with many Tumblr posts, the image conveys the message. Here, the subject is Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring holding a camera as if to take a picture of her painter or the viewer. “[T]ransformative work, intratextual work, is most emphatically not a new thing, nor a creatively barren thing. It’s awesome. And this image here is delicious, because it takes that lovely painting, in which the model is mysterious, alluring, her parted… Read more
Links Roundup for 19 December 2011
Here’s a roundup of stories on music and the classics that might be of interest to fans: The post Are music startups killing online music fandom? examines social aspects of music sharing, or the lack of them. “Honestly, I think I discovered more new music when MySpace was the only game in town for burgeoning bands to share tunes. Thanks to Facebook, I know how little most of my social circle and I have in common when it comes to music preference. More broadly, I think the music startup explosion hasn’t really done much to promote new music discovery at all, but mostly encourages an… Read more