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fair use colleen burke

Posted on February 12, 2013 by | Comments Off on fair use colleen burke

Fair use can be such a grey area, the line is drawn by judges, and at the end of the day judges are people whom contain their own bias.  Lets assume for a moment that Lucas decided to sue the creators of these two videos for copyright infringement, would he have a case?  In the first video “Star Wars Fan Film: The Essence of the Force”, one could argue that this is a clear case of fair use as this is a parody, as they are clearly spoofing particularly at the end of video.  However, Lucas could argue that they stole scenes and ideas from his movie, and they did not add anything new to his original idea, and therefore it would not be transformative and would not follow under fair use.  One would hope the presiding judge in this fictional case would side with the defendants.

Now lets look at the next video, “Star Wars Saga (The Best Trance Remix Montage)”  A montage by definition is a set of scenes usually set to music.  On YouTube many users upload scenes from movies set to music, sometimes their own sometimes someone else’s.  Lets presume this montage has original music, it still sampling all the scenes from Star Wars.  Lucas could then argue that since 100% of the scenes are from his movie, this a clear violation of copyright infringement.  The creator of the video could argue, that since he is not profiting from this video he is not harming the original, and is in fact paying homage to Lucas.

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Fair Use and Copyright Laws

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@CailinJohnson

The Fair Use law states that you can copy or use a limited amount of a work without the permission of the copyright holder. However copyright law states that there needs to be a legal agreement about who can duplicate content. However with copyright law there is a public domain so after so many years that work because open to public use.

What is fair use and what is copyright has come under scrutiny because so many consumers have become producers and believe works should be available for public use.

All of the videos seem like they would be legal under the fair use laws. Each video is taking a little bit or piece of a work and tweaking it to make it their own. Such as the Disney Taxi cab, the producer of this video used animation and clips of Disney cartoons but did not use the whole cartoon in his film. Also the musician girl talk is taking bits and pieces of songs and changing them and making them different enough that they are no longer the same song.

The video that seems like it would be the most controversial to me is the Star Wars Fan Film: The Essence of the Force. This video is taking not just a little bit of the Star Wars theme but the whole video up until the end is the basic storyline of Star Wars complete with light sabers and costumes.  This video follows the original Star Wars so closely it could be sued under copyright laws.

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In A Blog Post Far Far Away

Posted on February 12, 2013 by | Comments Off on In A Blog Post Far Far Away

@YakustaLeader

For this weeks multimedia, we were to look at star wars youtube videos. However, we were not watching the movies, instead they were parodies and clips. The first video “Star Wars Fan Film: The Essence of the Force” was pretty original and did not seem to go against any copyright or Fair Use laws. There were a coupld of similarities, but the ideas were original and it seemed that it was more for a Mountain Dew commerical or advertisement than something that was made from a copyright. The second clip “Star Wars Saga (The Best Trance Remix Montage)” did not seem to violate any laws, to say…. However they did use clips from the films in a mix and probably did not get permission from the makers. But it wasn’t to make a movie or anything like that. The video was a bunch of clips from the films yes, but they were all mixed into one video and electric music was added into the video for background music. So technically if you think that using the clips violates the copyrights, then yes it violated them. But since it wasn’t for a movie of their own and more like a music video then it didn’t.

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Copyright and Fair Use

Posted on February 11, 2013 by | Comments Off on Copyright and Fair Use

@PerrinKyla

Copyright and fair use laws can be interpreted in many different ways, but it is ultimately up to the federal court to decide what is and isn’t a copyrighted production and what is a fare use production. In the first Star Wars video, “Star Wars Fan Film – Essence of the Force,” it seems like it is suppose to be a Mountain Dew commercial. I would argue that the clips from the Star Wars movies are fair use because it could be said that all the clips transform it into a parody of the Star Wars movies. However, it is said that even parodies have been sued in a federal court for infringement. There is also a question in this video of whether or not this is a real commercial or video of Mountain Dew. It says at the end of the video that the video is copyrighted but it doesn’t say what corporation copyrighted it. In the second video “Star Wars Saga (The Best Trance Remix Montage),” it is similar in the terms of being considered under fair use, but the only big difference is the music. There is a question in this video of whether or not the music is original, or if the maker of this video just took the music from somewhere else and put it to this video. In my opinion it seems that no matter what someone creates it can always be seen as plagiarized. “All ideas are secondhand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and used daily…” (Jonathan Lethem pg.68).

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Discussion Post 5

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@Stansberry_DTCV

While only a federal court can deem whether a piece of work is considered “fair use” or not, under general guidelines the Youtube film “Star Wars Fan Film: The Essence of the Force” is undoubtedly a case of fair use. The video has merely taken the idea of Star Wars, implemented his own scenes and transformed it into a parody advertising the soda Mountain Dew. Even the words that scrolled in the beginning of the film that resembled those in the beginning of Star Wars movies were different. In my opinion, this is obviously transformative and could probably be considered a parody as well. The second video named “Star Wars Saga (The Best Trance Remix Montage)” is also transformative and under fair use because it’s clearly a compilation, paired with music to polish the remix. One argument that might be made against the video is that it isn’t considered to be a “limited amount” used for transformative purposes. I would argue this with the fact that the video is only slightly over 7 minutes long and there are plenty of examples that use the same idea. The video we watched in class about copyright using the Disney characters were a compilation of audio and video clips from Disney movies was used irony to simultaneously teach and show fair use, which is similar to what was done in the second video.

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Discussion Post 4

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@Stansberry_DTCV

When comparing and contrasting the two news broadcasts from 1980 and 2008, it’s easy to tell the major changes the news have made in the past 20-25 years. The most obvious remedy is the “real-time” news feed text that runs along the bottom of the screen; it appears that in this broadcast that the news is all relayed in the feed, while the anchors and analysts all focus on the same story. On the contrary, the abc news report from 1990 seems to cover all these stories orally and is more focused on the anchorman and the story’s video footage than analysts particular views on one subject as in the 2008 cast. Another difference is the false background shown behind the analysts in the 2008 news and multiple windows shown creating a virtual conference room that you don’t see in the other. The fake backgrounds such as the white house are supposed to give the viewer a sense of “immediacy”, which Bolter and Grusin describe as making something digital, “‘natural’ rather than arbitrary”. Bolter and Grusin also have guidelines for the definition of remediation being that it is “repurposing” and the fact that “the ‘content’ of any medium is always another medium”.These broadcasts show displays these in that the news in the first broadcast has changed in medium to a running text feed.

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Remediation and News Broadcasts of 1990 and 2008

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RachaelS_dtc

By comparing the multimedia texts, there is evidence of remediation. Remediation, by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s definition,  is using older technology and incorporating it into newer technology. This is evident in the two news broadcasts from 1990 and 2008. In the first news broadcast, there is very little computer animation. The only animation that is used it to transition between stories and have a graphic behind the speaker. In the second news broadcast there are animations on the bottom of the screen. Text scrolls across the screen full of information of multiple news stories. The “computer animation can function like film” (Remediation 70), since they are in constant motion. This broadcast is very similar to USA Today which has a “layout [that] resembles a multimedia computer application more that it does a television broadcast” (Remediation 76). This major difference between the broadcasts shows remediation because the news is still presented, but in a different way. The first broadcast has elements that are still used in the second broadcast such as presenting stories by the anchor and a graphic behind them. Now, the news has advanced to be more interactive and allow listen to multiple stories at once. News can also allow you to connect through the internet because news anchors have Twitter accounts and news channels have websites. This advanced media can only happen through remediation because the older ideas and technology is added on to become more advanced. Remediation allows new ideas to build off old ideas. This is true in the news broadcast where the original presentation of the news is added with text scrolling at the bottom of the screen and more graphics throughout the stories.

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Remediation in the News

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@TannerSturza

In the article they define that “we call the representation of one medium in another “remediation,” and we will argue that remediation is a defining characteristic of the new digital media” (page 78).  With the news broadcast from ABC World News being 18 older than the Broadcast about Oprah, there must be some remediation of the old technology. You can see that both videos are similar, but the newer one has noticeable new technology that was used to create the broadcast. The ABC World News video is fairly simply, just videos with not a lot on the screen. But the Oprah video has several different things that are happening on the screen. At the bottom of the screen there are headlines that are constantly changing. Also, they have three different people that are in three different locations on the screen at the same time having a conversation with each other. The concept of remediation shows that they are using the same style of video to present the news, but it has been influenced by the new technology to deliver a very different news broadcast. It is also mentioned that “the viewer stands in the same relationship to the content as she would if she were confronting the original medium” (page 79). Both videos are presenting the news and the viewer is still being informed, the only difference is that the new technology has made it so the the viewer receives the information a little differently.

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Blog Post #4

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@YakustaLeader4

Differences between the news programs in an 18 year period is pretty hard to see just how much has changed. In the 1990 ABC World News, it was straight to the point, and told what was going on. It was also pretty boring to watch, one because of the outdatedness and two because the anchor was only telling the news. In the 2008 CNN video, it was more opened. There was more opinions involved and the technology was better in the picture and labels.

But how this goes along with remediation, I do not see it entirely. What my understanding of remediation is taking an old form of media and making it better basically. While the differences between how the technology in the broadcasting is different, and perhaps better, I didn’t really see how it goes along with Bolter and Grusin. If remediation is also saying how we have changed the way media is diplayed or done now, then it kind of works a little. Mainly how it would work is in how in the ABC broadcast it was straight to the point and not opinionated; this was done in 1990. And nowadays, with the CNN broadcast the “news” has become very opinionated in how the intervees were discussing their view on how Oprah would change how people percieved Obama. Since she was endorsing him, then  that maybe because of how much power she has, then people might think “Yes he has my vote because Oprah know’s what she is doing”, or something to that extent.

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Remediation and the News

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@ohheyitshonor

The two videos, representing the news broadcasts of 1990 and 2008, are prime examples of what the text refers to as remediation. The differences between the two can be largely attributed to remediation, mostly because of the expanded use of media outlets.

The 1990 broadcast  detailed news in a way in which separated the mediums of news they utilized. There would be a full screen shot of the news caster, verbals conveying the news, then there would be a screen shot of text. This visual separation of the mediums is found throughout the broadcast, and is a way to combine the benefits of each medium while still creating a separate time for each to exist.

In contrast, the 2008 news cast represented what Bolton and Grunsin’s “Remediation” is in it’s entirety  Along with higher quality video, comes the mix of many resources become one image. While the image of the news caster is broadcast, there’s texts on the bottom of the screen scrolling through. This is the epitome of combining media’s for the maximum messages it is able to convey. The new casters in the 2008 broadcast also use many other mediums simultaneously as they speak, like other smaller video and pictures to enhance their story.

All of these media combined create the remediation we see everywhere in our society today.

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