Someone just said the same thing you did, in much less words. a-m-v.org isn't about the legalities of making amvs, and neither is this topic. If you think its so illegal/unethical to create them, why are you here? Because we enjoy creating this form of art (yeah thats right, i do think amvs are just another form of fanart).Vlad G Pohnert wrote:This is a very touchy subject to begin with and frankly even though in principal the concept is valid, it hold no water and thus should no even be discussed further.
The fact of the matter is since everyone is busy screaming about their ideas and footage being "Stolen", I really wonder what the real artists and companies thing of us stealing, using and modifying their footage... Quite frankly they could be using the same words and attitudes towards us just the same as we are against others, and they have a lot better reason to and I wonder how we would react to them saying the same thing as some are here…
In the end, we are using and manipulation footage without permission ourselves.. Technically it's not right for others to steal the images we use and manipulate then, but because we do it ourselves, we really have no right or obligations to accuse others of doing so to work that is already someone else’s to begin with
Morally I agree it’s still wrong, but hopefully most creators are honorable enough amongst themselves not to do it as we are in no position to do anything against .
Vlad
And you are right, MOST creators ARE honorable enough not to do it, but unfortunatly, there are alot of people who aren't, and who do use the footage and take credit for the hard work and creative efforts of the rest of us here.
And the bottom line is, it is a direct violatoin of SEVERAL of AMV.orgs rules , as Arigatomya pointed out in this thread a few days ago: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... c&start=15 . If a video violates the rules on the site that hosts it, why SHOULDN'T it be deleted?
