Stealed Footage from Amvs

shini_d · Post by **shini_d** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 5:50 am

Cause I'm new to this, I just want to ask...
What do you mean by stolen footage?

Xx Sandra a.k.a Shini.D xX

MomochiZabuza · Post by **MomochiZabuza** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 6:46 am

Yeah... I wouldn't really care about someone steling my AMV to use and copy into their own wierd thing (unless it was an exact copy) I'd be more angry if someone stole my amv and then made it crappier. I would be like GOD! STOP DEFILING MY AMV WITH YOUR SUCKY LITTLE VIDEO OF NOTHING

But yeah if you want to take clips from my AMV feel free (unless you suck at editing, which is everyone who steals scenes from another AMV...ok you know what just dont take things from me

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Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:19 pm

shini_d wrote:Cause I'm new to this, I just want to ask...
What do you mean by stolen footage?

You know how most of us take scenes from dvds and use them in our amvs? And how some of us download entire episodes and use those as our source? Well, there are some people who download amvs and use them as if they were the original anime. This means instead of taking the same stock footage everyone else takes, they get 'already made' videos. They then run those 'stolen' clips through their own programs and pretend they made the amv - even though they clearly took chunks and sections from someone else's amv.

But it's not really the footage being stolen (unless the person added effects he made himself in a paint program - which does happen). Usually the edits are what's stolen - a person's transitions, order, and intellectual imput that made the original video an amv and not just anime footage with a song playing in the background.

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:54 pm

Arigatomina wrote: But it's not really the footage being stolen (unless the person added effects he made himself in a paint program - which does happen). Usually the edits are what's stolen - a person's transitions, order, and intellectual imput that made the original video an amv and not just anime footage with a song playing in the background.

Amen. That should end the thread, really. I just don't see how you can argue with that. It's the same kind of theft as plagiarism, and shouldn't be thought of as anything but.

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:35 pm

Arigatomina wrote:.. intellectual input that made the original video an amv and not just anime footage with a song playing in the background.

I'm hurt by those words.

*sobs*