What if AMVs were made legal?

[8bit_samurai]

Screw that. Black Market AMVs would be where all the real money is at.

[competitionbros]

Screw that. Black Market AMVs would be where all the real money is at.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[OtakuGray]

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.

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all the sources i found said that the DMCA is definitely going to be dead at some point due to internet downloading and out-of-date copyright laws.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

[BasharOfTheAges]

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.

[Kionon]

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.

...way to lose the game, Bashar. Tongue, cheek, etc.

[shonen_jidai]

It would be nice if AMVs were legal, but I don't really see that happening until the generation that grew up with them is running things. A lot of old business models are dying slow tortuous deaths because the greedy dinosaurs running them just don't get it.

[Kitsuner]

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.

The video is not available for download, as the video itself, not just the footage, is the legal property of AD Vision.

Just like mirkosp said.

[OtakuGray]

It would be nice if AMVs were legal, but I don't really see that happening until the generation that grew up with them is running things. A lot of old business models are dying slow tortuous deaths because the greedy dinosaurs running them just don't get it.

I completely agree.

[BasharOfTheAges]

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.

...way to lose the game, Bashar. Tongue, cheek, etc.

So many people here are far to thick to even think you're joking.

[gotegenks]

i didn't even think about it as a market, and idk y not xD

AMV theatres?

if we had to buy amvs like anime on dvd, i'm almost certain we'd do ourselves in...piracy and junk, but i don't know how else there'd be a market...

that's where the legalization of WEED has an advantage...