Is it copying if you didn't know?

DuskvsTweak · Post by **DuskvsTweak** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:32 pm

Today at work I got this great vision for an AMV. It was going to be Blood: The Last Vampire and Battle without Honor and Humanity and I was really jazzed about it. So I went on the search to see if it's been done and to my heart-break, one person has done it. And sumbited it 10/30/05. Should I still make the video or would I be criticized for copying? Just looking for advice.

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:35 pm

If the video in question is in the entire AMV community's collective memory, then you will catch shit. If it isn't, no one will notice. I rip tons of people off but no one notices because all the videos are relatively obscure.

RolltheStampede · Post by **RolltheStampede** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:41 pm

Its ok to do it but generally if you do you had better do a better job than the person before me, the same thing happened to me while i was editing a video, i wasnt just gonna stop doing it , i just keep on dont what i was doing and made sure i surpassed the other video

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:44 pm

Just make your own version of the video. Don't watch the other guy's video beforehand.

staces · Post by **staces** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:19 pm

That happened to me one time with a vid, but the other person's really wasn't very good.

So I watched their AMV as I was making mine to make sure that I didn't use any of the same footage in the same places so that I could not be accused of "idea stealing". Some ideas are just obvious.

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:24 pm

Hmm... I reckon this is a fairly common conundrum amongst people around here...

The way I sometimes view my video editing is that I make the AMVs because I have a vision or an idea that I just want to see happen (ie. a combination of a video and music to a theme that I want, obviously enough). Now, being the lazy person that I am, I actually would rather download that video if such a concept which I was thinking of already exist. And if I'm still not satisfied that what I was playing around with in my mind was not made satisfactorily then I may be prodded into action.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:33 pm

I stopped even checking to see if an Idea is done before. If I realy want to do it, I just do it. The last few videos I made, I didn;t even check beforehand.

RolltheStampede · Post by **RolltheStampede** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:33 pm

Yeah when I see that the concept has already been done very well i usually find something else to do, like for example we also had the idea to do Phenomenon to naruto but when the video was released and was pretty good i lost interest in doing it my self and decided to work on one of my many other ideas

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:48 pm

Yeah, exactly... at any one time I probably have one or two ideas flying in my head, and I think my time is just better spent doing something that doesn't entertain me yet.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:58 pm

Bakadeshi wrote:I stopped even checking to see if an Idea is done before. If I realy want to do it, I just do it. The last few videos I made, I didn;t even check beforehand.

Although... I was thinking... this probably works more for me since my ideas generally are not likely to have been done before, and ususally if it had, I would know about it.