I recently checked out the website animemusicvideos.org, it’s a website dedicated to the creation and sharing of AMV’s. For those of you who don’t know, and AMV is an anime music video. In an amv cut scenes from the featured anime are spliced together to go with a certain music track. AMV’s are a popular type of video among the online anime watching community. On animemusicvideos.com the community talks about more than just how to make amv’s. Members discuss trends within the amv making community as well as their views on legal and copyright issues pertaining to amv’s. AMV’s are often made using whatever song the artist likes but the problem is many times the song used is under copyright and places like youtube where many amv’s are shared often take them down shortly after their posted. This is a problem similar to the one facing mash up artists like girl talk, because amv’s are very similar, sort of a mash up of their own, just a mash up of music and shows. The animemusicvideos.org community shares the belief that copyright laws for music and videos are out of date and need to be changed. I understand their frustrations and agree with them, it is both complicated and frustrating to tell every artist looking to use certain materials that they must first obtain copyrights to use it. If a writer only needs to cite their source when using it in a paper, then why can’t an amv artist do the same? What are your thoughts?
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/index.php
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