Is there an AMV publishing company?

[Enigma]

No one specified that "anime conventions" were off limits in this conversation, and I still don't think they are..
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I can't remember the entire story and if someone can fill in the gaps - but I do recall a specific time when someone stole the footage from someone popular's amv and that Frankenstein was used as an advert in some country that was not the USA.

I remember something about some country using stolen AMV footage(Phenomenon by Sierra Lorna i believe?) for a Naruto promo.

[JaddziaDax]

Yeah that was the one XD

[gotegenks]

woah, i didn't say it was off-limits, just maybe not exactly what the op is talking about...

[chambeyc]

Dunno if it corresponds to what you described in the first place, but Akross sends DVDs from their previous year contests (though it's limited to Russia).
I suppose it's not free (probably no gain involved though), so this can be viewed as a kind of commercialization and "Akross" can be viewed as a label.