What if AMVs were made legal?

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What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby gotegenks » Sun May 16, 2010 10:30 pm

i'm not exactly sure how or if this is possible, but what if some magic lawsuit ended up making AMV editing/uploading legal.

would it be awesome? would the industry grow? maybe anime companies would pay editors (probably not someone off the Org) and advertise with amvs. Maybe the industry would grow and there would be degrees branching off of general video editing colleges. I think a lot more americans would be into anime...although there's a ton now.
i just imagine high school classes or clubs and AMV-Cons growing in popularity, all this cool shit happening.

for some reason i just imagine an editor on some talk show. Actually, what comes to mind is the scene from Gamer where the bad guy (dexter or w/e) is on that talk show.

would it be awesome? Or would we have to obtain licenses, pay for uploads, have to go through minor (or major) legal shit to do the crap we do now illegally.

what complications would there be to it. Lists of artists/record companies that allow it, or anime companies for that matter. In that case, what kind of anime company would allow it? Gainax level stuff or like 3rd rate borderline yaoi shit companies.

it's nice to daydream about in chemistry, but don't know if want :|
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby Athena » Sun May 16, 2010 10:40 pm

I dunno what you are talking about. I claim fair use as the basis for all my actions. I feel I'm quite within the legality. The only way to prove me wrong is to take me to court.
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby Kitsuner » Mon May 17, 2010 1:02 am

There have actually been AMV editors from this site hired by anime companies to make official AMVs. The main examples that leap to mind are the Noir Omake videos that Kusoyaro, AbsoluteDestiny, dokidoki, and Nightowl made for the last disc of Noir.
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby Castor Troy » Mon May 17, 2010 1:35 am

I'd make boxsets of my videos and charge millions.
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby Nya-chan Production » Mon May 17, 2010 5:53 am

Castor Troy wrote:I'd make boxsets of my videos and charge millions.

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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby kireblue » Mon May 17, 2010 6:05 am

Kitsuner wrote:There have actually been AMV editors from this site hired by anime companies to make official AMVs. The main examples that leap to mind are the Noir Omake videos that Kusoyaro, AbsoluteDestiny, dokidoki, and Nightowl made for the last disc of Noir.


I never knew of this. Why in the world don't we have a local for these videos? And the south one isn't even listed in the catalog.


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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby mirkosp » Mon May 17, 2010 6:13 am

kireblue wrote:Why in the world don't we have a local for these videos?

Prolly has to do with the fact that they were specifically edited for the DVD as an actual job and they can't put it here due to some contractual restriction of sort... I wouldn't know, ask doki I guess. :uhoh:
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby JaddziaDax » Mon May 17, 2010 12:00 pm

I wish Anime Works would hire some GOOD editors to do the "amvs" they have on some of their discs :/
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Mon May 17, 2010 1:33 pm

Castor Troy wrote:I'd make boxsets of my videos and charge millions.


And I'll collect the reward money for turning you in :P

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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby Castor Troy » Mon May 17, 2010 1:44 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:I'd make boxsets of my videos and charge millions.


And I'll collect the reward money for turning you in :P

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But this would be in a world where amvs are legal!
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby 8bit_samurai » Mon May 17, 2010 3:27 pm

Screw that. Black Market AMVs would be where all the real money is at.
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby competitionbros » Mon May 17, 2010 3:29 pm

8bit_samurai wrote:Screw that. Black Market AMVs would be where all the real money is at.




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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby OtakuGray » Mon May 17, 2010 7:34 pm

I would love to make amvs for someone, but i dont do well with requests and id probably make really shitty amvs if i was given money to make an amv under strict guidelines. :sweat:

Also, i did a paper on downloading music and pretty much all the sources i found said that the DMCA is definitely going to be dead at some point due to internet downloading and out-of-date copyright laws. This means things are gonna get re-written one day and hey, who knows, maybe they'll shove amvs in there somehow :wink:
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Mon May 17, 2010 7:47 pm

Kionon wrote:I dunno what you are talking about. I claim fair use as the basis for all my actions. I feel I'm quite within the legality. The only way to prove me wrong is to take me to court.

You know as well as any of us that fair use isn't an affirmative defense. We're in guilty until proven innocent territory here. You're in worse shape though - no fair use in nihongoland.
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Re: What if AMVs were made legal?

Postby Athena » Mon May 17, 2010 7:54 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Kionon wrote:I dunno what you are talking about. I claim fair use as the basis for all my actions. I feel I'm quite within the legality. The only way to prove me wrong is to take me to court.

You know as well as any of us that fair use isn't an affirmative defense. We're in guilty until proven innocent territory here. You're in worse shape though - no fair use in nihongoland.


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