nailz1000 wrote:News flash: YOU DID NOT MAKE THE FOOTAGE YOU ARE USING. YOU DID NOT DRAW IT, LISENCE IT OR GET PERMISSION FROM THE ORIGINAL CREATOR TO USE IT. (with of course, a few exceptions)
furthermore: YOU DID NOT MAKE THE _SONG_ USED IN YOUR VIDEO. YOU DID NOT GET PERMISSION FROM THE ORIGINAL CREATOR TO USE IT.
Therefore, how and why can you be upset when someone 'bastardizes' (sp) your video? It's not YOURS.
You make some good points... however, I do see one difference. When we take footage from a lisenced company, people know where it came from. If we take something from Evangelion, it says so in our video info page and often it is even written in people's videos that it is from the anime Evangelion. People
know that we did not make the series ourselves. Same goes for the music. We specify what song it is and who did the song. If we made the pictures and/or music ourselves, we say so. We don't get permission from the anime or song companies, but we do give them credit.
Usually if someone takes footage from another person's video, the creator of the original video doesn't get any credit. So people will probably think the one who took the footage is the one who took the time to cut and edit the scenes. I believe this is wrong; if someone's hours of work is taken and made into something else, it should be specified that they did not actually create those effects or whatever. If credit was given, I wouldn't mind at all. I would be honored and I say if they're willing to say where they got their footage from, I would just let them do it.