Infinity Squared wrote:Gox777 wrote:2. No matter how you look at it, AMVs on this site do more good than bad to the sales of the original works. It's the same as with fansubs; they spark interest and help spread music and anime that others aren't familiar with. Companies turn a blind eye.
This is becoming an outdated concept. I am more under the impression now that we are breaking even rather than either doing good or bad in the eyes of the anime companies. When it was much more of a niche thing, every little bit of publicity that anime can get was worth letting ahead of, but right now anime has moved quite a bit to almost mainstream and the advertising and self promotion of anime has gone beyond the need for a continued abuse of AMVers and fansubbers of their copyright.
That doesn't make sense though. People don't watch AMVs for the anime, so to speak. Like, there's no reason for anime companies to worry about AMVs doing any damage to their sales, because AMVs are fragments of footage. But I also understand that companies are unwilling to compromise their copyrights for any reason. I can see that they wouldn't want to set a double-standard.
Regardless, I think the issue is more on the music side of things. While you don't get full anime epsiodes with AMVs, you DO get full songs for free. Even though it's more trouble than it's worth to demux AMVs and convert the audio files, it IS more believable to think that music companies would get upset over that than anime companies getting upset over their footage being used in music videos.
I feel like I'm repeating what's been said a billion times already.
