Seizure Warning...

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:06 am

Negligence suit would fail, they would have to claim that an AMV Editor has some sort of duty to viewers and that doesn't really exist. We can't have a legally enforceable duty to anyone that downloads our videos (especially since they are hosted and downloaded blindly).

A warning would be pointless as there would not be a valid claim against us.

kikai_saigono · Post by **kikai_saigono** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:56 am

you could always put the 'hey this vid might give you a headache, watch at your own risk' wawrning label on the vid description?

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:00 pm

kikai_saigono wrote:you could always put the 'hey this vid might give you a headache, watch at your own risk' wawrning label on the vid description?

Better yet, right at the beginning of the video, for a moment. Since no one reads vid descriptions...

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:30 pm

Cornwiggle wrote:
kikai_saigono wrote:you could always put the 'hey this vid might give you a headache, watch at your own risk' wawrning label on the vid description?
Better yet, right at the beginning of the video, for a moment. Since no one reads vid descriptions...

but neglecting to read a warning label is no excuse once its there. Think you'll get out of a speeding ticket because you didn't read the posted speed limit sign and thus didn;t know how fast you should've been going? ;p

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Fri May 18, 2007 1:47 pm

Bakadeshi wrote:
Cornwiggle wrote:
kikai_saigono wrote:you could always put the 'hey this vid might give you a headache, watch at your own risk' wawrning label on the vid description?
Better yet, right at the beginning of the video, for a moment. Since no one reads vid descriptions...
but neglecting to read a warning label is no excuse once its there. Think you'll get out of a speeding ticket because you didn't read the posted speed limit sign and thus didn;t know how fast you should've been going? ;p

Well under products liability that would be an excuse because if the warning is declared inefficient then it's considered defective. However, AMVs don't fall under products liability and at worst we would have a suit for negligence.

You don't need to put anything, we can't be found liable to an indefinite number of people who we can't control accessing something for which we do not hold a duty to others on with regards to protecting their health. See my earlier post.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:00 pm

godix wrote:Between 5 and 30 flashes per second are usually needed to trigger an epileptic attack in someone so inclined. And they have to be timed fairly strictly usually. And they have to happen more than a one or two flashes usually. Few videos, even the really shiny gee whiz effects ones, will flash more that 5 times a second. If someone sat down to design a video that can cause epileptic attacks it's certainly possible to do it but it's unlikely to happen by accident.

According to the biologist who came to visit my REU at CMU and give a talk, the optimal frequency is 20 Hz; I believe he also mentioned that, as a consequence, PALs generally have more trouble with it than NTSCers.