Im not sure Id agree that a sense of victimization or righteous anger are the primary driving forces behind such things, but they are in the mix somewhere when it comes to reactions of music etc industry. Ive yet to see it from any vlogger in response to creative re-use of an element of their work, perhaps sometimes towards comapnies/sites that may have deserved it.
Personally I dont think vlogging is in quite that much danger yet, though there is a spectrum of opinion on rights, freedoms etc, at least the relationship with the internet is that it enables this stuff, rather than being the source of the threat. There will be a small minority of people interested in things like DRM and attempting strong control over distribution, and this may get worse as revenue streams appear, but generally at least were beyond the idea of denying basic rights to viewers, all the griping and desire for control covers those who are piggybacking off others work to try to get rich, so distribution/promotion/sponsorship/advertising stuff, and then the things you are talking about are the next step from that - rights for artists and re-use. That area interests me because I have dabbled with VJing in the pastwhere there were always hot debates about VJ's 'right' to take clips from other peoples work and remix/recontextualixe them and use them in their live shows. Visual sampling, usually without making much money, but arguably still using the work of others for potential financial gain. Opinions varied especially as some people struggle to see the artistic/creative merit in using samples, whilst others believe its a virtual free-for-all, and that in the USA they may be protected by some 'fair use' right to use snippets for certain purposes (educational and parody spring to mind). Theres never a conclusion, the nearest i could sum up is that people usually get away with it unless they get a lot of attention or make loads of money, and so are worth pursuing. And that many VJs would like to play it legally and ethically safe so were happy when creative commons and archive.org emerged. In the world of vlogging issues of disparity between videobloggers creative rights to protect their work, versus trampling of other creative peoples rights, can cause strange moral wormholes to open in my mind. I recall that in the earlier days of this list, there was much discussion about using copyrighted music in vlogs, and some feelings that it was unfair and overly restrictive for companies to crackdown on this sort of use. Funnily enough one of the many reasons this is less common now, is that it gets in the way of vloggers ability to use creative commons licenses on their own work. Obviously there are still large grey and unresolved issues here, such as deals we heard about where youtube paid loadsamoney to some corps to make legit the use of their artists works within things people uploaded to youtube. Ive never clarified just exactly what happened with this - can I upload a vid there of me dancing to copyrighted music from certain labels and it be ok? My own personal viewpoint has always been something to do with sampling, when done in some way that is not just a complete carbon-copy of the original work, can have merit, and indeed might be seen as an inevitable desire in people. Folk music would be a comparable thing, another thing that shows the social, creative & communicative nature of humans. We like to share experiences, and if our experiences and culture are partly due to the media we consume, we'll want to do a variety of things with it. I dunno, theres a balance somewhere but there will always be some people who will go far one way or the other. Judging by the state of the world in general, humans struggle to balance the idea of 'freedom' with the 'need for security'. Personally Ive not got my creative reuse juices flowing often, when I have Ive tried to mostly use public domain or cc-derivs allowed stuff, but see plenty of copyrighted stuff Id love to use if it felt right and justified. For example I tend to think that politicians, and footage of them speaking, should be public domain, but where does that leave the humans who have to operate the camera etc etc. I have no predictions for how any of this may change in future. I would guess that the most radical changes would happen if there suddenly became a huge amount less of real money available for creators of all kinds, for all the associated distribution and publicity industries, because the stakes would change. But I dont see that happening unless any of my doomer scenarios of the future happen. What a totally different attitude we might have to all forms of ownership, rights, control, freedom of all creative works, ideas, and reuse, if we lived in some totally different world where everybody did a practical job such as farming during the first part of the day, and then returned home to converse, create, remix and redeploy, entertain , amuse and educate fellow humans during the afternoon & evening. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Lucas Gonze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/27/07, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even accepting reality for what it is, however, there are > > many good reasons to continue to push for our rights as creators to > > be sacrosanct. > > The problem is that videobloggers are going down the same hopelessly > unrealistic and ultimately disastrous path as the record labels and > movie companies. What's driving you is the same misplaced sense of > victimization and and righteous anger. > > Creators don't have sacrosanct rights in the US (except with regard to > attribution). That's not just a little wrong, it's wrong in a way > which is important. If creators were to be granted sacrosanct rights > it would be a massive expansion of copyright at the expense of the > public. > > And not just at the expense of the public, but also at the expense of > creators. The 500,000 YouTubers who you want to prevent from mashing > up your video have just as much right to make art as you do. If > what's at stake is the loss of 500,000 artworks, why does your work > trump theirs? >
