shonen_jidai wrote: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.
The "generation that grew up with them" doesn't seem to understand the problems of the current model.
An example:
http://www.re-evolution.org/ (use Google's cache or something to see the site content if it doesn't load)
Note the copyright statement and the "all rights reserved" in the footer. This is a group of AMVers that
(a) believes there to be no problem so big as to halt publishing in unauthorized use of other people's material for their own works, and
(b) have no qualms in using the existing, all-restrictions-by-default model for the things on which they
can (and, under modern laws, do by default) claim copyright
There is a second possibility, which is that the members of Re-Evolution just think that slapping "All Rights Reserved" on something looks cool, but if that's the case then what you have is ignorance of the law, and I don't think ignorance is really any better than intention, because they currently have the same effect.
This is only one case. No doubt that there
are people making AMVs that see the problems with the popular default copyright model and actively do something with their own works to subvert it. But I don't think those people are in the majority, nor will they ever be -- few take ideology over security.
LOL
