The Article Recut, Reframe, Recycle is about the kinds of uses of copyrighted works that are legal online. This article applies to me on many levels due to the fact I am a film major and have to deal with legal issues pertaining to copyrighted material all the time. The article describes many ways to quote copyrighted material in user generated videos. For example, satire and parody are spoofs of popular mass media in ways that demonstrate makers’ power over the material. I was taught that usually parodying popular figures or shows is one of the safest ways to remix the original material without copy write issues.
Another feature in the article describes incidental use of copyrighted materiel in videos. The example the article describes is Let’s Go Crazy #1, a video of an 18-month-old child dancing to Prince’s song “Let’s Go Crazy. It was later taken down from YouTube and other user-generated video websites for copyright infringement and because Prince is a douche bag. Incidental use applies to me because when I was a sophomore, I made a skim compilation video for a sponsored skimmer. Similar to the Prince example, I used music that I had permission to use but in one funny scene of guys telling jokes, I think, Jay-Z was playing on the stereo in the background. I later had to cut the scene due to copyright issues because they were planning to put the video online.
The clip below is a redub of the GI JOE cartoon PSAs. How is this legal? Does it fall under satire and parody?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Copyright Paordy and Satire
Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work.
Technology has been evolving for thousands of years now, and it will never stop. We will continue to come up with break through, and new ways to do things better. With the creation of youtube.com, and websites like it people were able to make their own videos and post things that may be copyrighted by other companies on these websites. They can even post videos they made themselves that may also hold copyrighted material on them. The types of copy righted works include Parody and satire, Illustration or example, Personal reportage or diaries, Negative or critical commentary and, Archiving of vulnerable or revealing materials.
Satire and Parody I think are the most popular and my favorite by far. It’s just funny to see everyday day people put their own spin on pop culture, entertainment, and famous people. To get a wide range of what other people think. Parody is among the most common and uncontroversial examples of fair use. It shows people’s opinions turned into humors, and it allows its creators to express what they really think in a comedic way.
Fair use in parody is really homage to what America is really about. When someone who creates a parody video quotes existing text, image, or music to comment upon it, this practice is really nothing more than that particular person criticizing and expressing his views. The law allows people to be creative with copyrighted material, and it has been paying off for them I would say.
The video’s I posted are two of my favorite parodies on YouTube. One is a parody trailer for the Dark Knight created by the Evil Iguana production company. These guys are hilarious their kids are age that I knew when I was in Chicago. The second one is just a parody of Star Wars that uses a lot lines, and major plots from the first 3 films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sYBqhOEdRQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKWVCv8uWDI
Technology has been evolving for thousands of years now, and it will never stop. We will continue to come up with break through, and new ways to do things better. With the creation of youtube.com, and websites like it people were able to make their own videos and post things that may be copyrighted by other companies on these websites. They can even post videos they made themselves that may also hold copyrighted material on them. The types of copy righted works include Parody and satire, Illustration or example, Personal reportage or diaries, Negative or critical commentary and, Archiving of vulnerable or revealing materials.
Satire and Parody I think are the most popular and my favorite by far. It’s just funny to see everyday day people put their own spin on pop culture, entertainment, and famous people. To get a wide range of what other people think. Parody is among the most common and uncontroversial examples of fair use. It shows people’s opinions turned into humors, and it allows its creators to express what they really think in a comedic way.
Fair use in parody is really homage to what America is really about. When someone who creates a parody video quotes existing text, image, or music to comment upon it, this practice is really nothing more than that particular person criticizing and expressing his views. The law allows people to be creative with copyrighted material, and it has been paying off for them I would say.
The video’s I posted are two of my favorite parodies on YouTube. One is a parody trailer for the Dark Knight created by the Evil Iguana production company. These guys are hilarious their kids are age that I knew when I was in Chicago. The second one is just a parody of Star Wars that uses a lot lines, and major plots from the first 3 films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sYBqhOEdRQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKWVCv8uWDI
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