Comments on: Public Domain: A Disgrace to Evil.

Public Domain: A Disgrace to Evil.

IronLizard — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:13:39 -0800

A Fair(y) Use Tale ^{Single link YouTube}

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:48:04 -0800

That's fucking awesome. I can't imagine how much time it took to make. Did they search subtitle files for the words they needed and sync'd video off that?

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Sat, 19 May 2007 21:16:03 -0800

I have no idea, but I loved it too.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Sat, 19 May 2007 21:27:34 -0800

I really wanted to like it, but in the end it was... pain...ful to... watch...

By: Arturus

Arturus — Sat, 19 May 2007 21:35:21 -0800

I bet a disney movie marathon was involved. I really like this.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:37:37 -0800

Brilliant, witty and staggering patience to edit. Loved that. Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created the short film. He "is an assistant professor of Film Studies and English at Bucknell University. His research includes early cinema and digital imagery. He has also made several experimental films that imagine what academic research might look like as a product of electronic (rather than literary) culture." WIRED says: ""A Fair(y) Use Tale" mashes up all your Disney favorites to humorously and effectively explain copyright law. The ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden, came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program. Stanford's Fair Use Project--to which Stanford Law professor, Copyright guru, Creative Commons advocate and Wired writer Lawrence Lessig contributes--was founded last year to "support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in order to enhance creative freedom." And, well, the movie is damn sure creative, and certainly seems to take the boundaries of fair use about as far as they can go." Fair(y) Use is on the Center for Internet and Society, part of Stanford Law School's site. That site also includes MeFite jgilliam's and Robert Greenwald's Iraq for Sale documentary.

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Sat, 19 May 2007 23:00:20 -0800

I liked it. I can't wait for the lawsuit.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Sun, 20 May 2007 00:13:11 -0800

Or the appeal!

By: AmberV

AmberV — Sun, 20 May 2007 04:10:05 -0800

"This is" "absolut"(ely) "brilliant!"

By: Captaintripps

Captaintripps — Sun, 20 May 2007 07:28:42 -0800

Great concept for about a minute.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 20 May 2007 10:03:20 -0800

I made it to 3:35. Could they not find at least one more utterance of the word "copy"?

By: nola

nola — Sun, 20 May 2007 11:22:55 -0800

This is amazing, but now I need an aspirin.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Sun, 20 May 2007 12:18:19 -0800

That was... a good idea, but unbelievably poorly executed. The editing, even taking into account the diverse sources, was terrible. I watched it when it came up on boingboing, and turned it off after about 10 seconds of the video.

By: motty

motty — Sun, 20 May 2007 16:18:00 -0800

Superb. I found it perfectly watchable, though from these comments not everyone could cope with the serious amount of jump cutting* required to voice the script. BlackLeotardFront, I'm genuinely curious - if you thought this was poorly executed can you give an example of another film with a text heavy script that was similarly constructed from tiny snippets of other films which was less poorly executed? * Ok, not actually 'jump' cutting, then. What is the proper term here?

By: Phire

Phire — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:24:43 -0800

Augh. The concept was awesome, but listening to it gave me a headache. Suffering through those 10 minutes was worth it only for the appropriately placed, non-truncated reaction shots. That said, I do appreciate the amount of work that's gone into this, and in retrospect, it is hilarious. Especially the conclusion. Still... *wanders off to listen to more mellifluous sounds*

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sun, 20 May 2007 21:10:31 -0800

LOVE IT. I could say more but it would be so much.

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Sun, 20 May 2007 21:57:48 -0800

Hey! I know that guy! I took some classes from him at Bucknell, and I worked with him on a documentary project. I never had a chance to actually view any of his stuff (I was too busy graduating and working on my own film projects) but he was a good professor and had one of the best justifications for Starship Troopers being a good movie. He is also responsible for starting the restoration of the awesome Campus Theatre in Lewisburg. It has it's own mini classic film festival, I got to see The General played there with a live orchestra.