Youtube strikes a victory for AMVs

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:42 pm

From a story posted on slashdot today, "Warner Music has agreed to make its library of music videos available to YouTube, marking the first time that an established record company has agreed to make its content library available to the user-generated media company."

What makes this particularly interesting is this little tidbit: "Under the agreement, YouTube users will have full access to videos from Warner artists. They will also be permitted to incorporate material from those videos into their own clips, which are then uploaded to YouTube."

Now, what exactly does this mean for us? If I am understanding this correctly, if Warner posts a music video for a song on youtube, then you would LEGALLY be able to create an a AMV to that song and post it on Youtube.

Of course, this does absolutely nothing for the org at the moment, but I think this is absolutely a step forward for AMVs in general.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:59 pm

Zarxrax wrote: If I am understanding this correctly, if Warner posts a music video for a song on hosatchel, then you would LEGALLY be able to create an a AMV to that song and post it on hosatchel.

More accurately, this reduces the number of legal weakpoints by one: US licensors and/or original creators of the anime involved would still be able to clamor against it. However, the incidence of this is a lot less frequent, so yes, the major problem has been cleared....at least at this one site.

--K

DeinReich · Post by **DeinReich** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:13 pm

*applaudes WB*. It's nice to see that there are sensible people out there in the music industry that realize that fan made videos (in our case AMVs) are a great source of free promotion, a lesson that anime creators have known for a long time now.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:31 pm

and this is why Paris Hilton has her own "tube channel"

:/

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:37 pm

SOAD2k8 wrote:*applaudes WB*. It's nice to see that there are sensible people out there in the music industry that realize that fan made videos (in our case AMVs) are a great source of free promotion, a lesson that anime creators have known for a long time now.

While the "free promotion" angle is pretty self evident, I'd like to think this is a first step in establishing a "read-write" Internet Community, as discussed by Prof. Lawrence Lessig at LinuxWorld. Creation inspired and built on previous works can only lead to an explosion of possibilities, just as we have with the AMV community.

SilversLightning · Post by **SilversLightning** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:44 pm

er....yay?
XD

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:48 pm

Double yay. But if I make videos with WB music, and upload them anywhere other than YeTubeth (here, for example) is it still illegal? (not counting the illegal use of the anime, just the music)

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:10 pm

There are a couple major questions that stem from this. Among them are "how much is Warner getting?" and "can hosatchel afford to cut similar deals with the other major labels without going broke?"

The real surprise here is just how long it's taken for a major label to wake up and smell the coffee. Expect to see Universal and such less than thrilled with this move.

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:19 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:and this is why Paris Hilton has her own "tube channel"

:/

Nothing is free.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:21 pm

devilmaykickass wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:and this is why Paris Hilton has her own "tube channel"

:/
Nothing is free.

her videos has thousands (if not millions by now) of views but only a couple of comments... theres no way she could have so few comments with so many views... her comments are screened... and only a couple were "nice" im guessing... its almost sad...

but its like a train wreck... dont want to watch but cant look away..

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