Personally, I am not a fan of copyright licenses. Oftentimes I feel restricted in my work, unable to sample almost anything at all for fear of infringing copyright laws. This comes as no real surprise, me being of the mass media Internet generation who doesn’t much care for the mainstream music or film industries and all.
That said, I still enjoy a good album or movie in much the same way I like lighter, DIY user created content such as video mashups, and respect peoples’ rights to make money from their creations. Heck, it would be nice to one day make something out of what I do, but of course it’s never the primary motivation. People motivated by money may be rich but, on the whole, aren’t very nice individuals, and I’d hate to become one of them.
Good Copy Bad Copy is a Danish documentary offering some hope for the future, a utopian world where individuals are free to express their creativity with as wide a range of media as is available without fear of censorship. It’s a great watch for anyone interested in such things, covering copyright laws in the United States, Europe and even Nigeria. Here’s a bit of taster, the final minutes of the film:
I wonder if copyright messages are themselves copyrighted? Let’s conduct an experiment.
Here’s a video consisting entirely of legal warnings from the likes of VVL and the VHS Video Collection. Who will be the first, if any, to get the video removed? Find out right here, soon. Or not, depending on how many people actually care enough to watch the thing.
Might be interesting, could be boring. Let’s see how things transpire.
Not that I have anything against VHS as a medium, in fact regular readers of Harry Yack will recall he has something of soft spot for it, or at least he prefers it to DVD. But it’s always fun to watch stuff being destroyed, and anyone who denies this fact is a big fat liar.
In actuality, this video’s supposed to be a semi-serious test of how durable the humble cassette tape is. More of the same is on the way, with a bit of luck. As to what form these future experiments will take, I’m not quite sure at this point. Perhaps a ‘ten reasons why VHS is better than DVD’? Suppose it depends on how much time am able to devote to it over the coming weeks.
This is a curious snippet I encountered when trawling through a bunch of VHS tapes I recently purchased from a car boot sale. I’m going to label it as part of The VHS Project, though I don’t currently have plans to expand on that notion. Maybe some time in the future.
Some woman claims she’s been to the moon with aliens. How much monetary compensation she received for these revelations is yet to be disclosed, though I’d guess it’s quite a lot.
Oh yeah, and apologies for the poor quality, but then you generally get that with verrry old VHS tapes.
