
Hm, been almost three weeks since I’d posted. How was your Christmas? :)
This is pretty much a short(er) interim post while I get my Otenba Koimusume (Cirno’s Theme) post ready. @animemiz on Twitter linked me to a delightful video on George and AJ, the two poor Shady Oaks (Retirement Home) employees, who find themselves in a bit of a pickle when Carl’s UP house turns into a trend with elderly retirees. From the original Pixar page, I found a remix of Up by Pogo, who hails from down under (though down in Perth, WA). Pogo’s also made a variety of other videos with sounds from other movies, one of which seems to have recently been taken down. Some say Disney wasn’t happy Alice was up since it was using their copyright material, which is something I can understand. I do prefer the Up remix a lot more to Alice, though, which is kinda repetitive.
Now, compare Pixar’s if-I-can’t-beat-em-I-sure-can-use-them-to-draw-traffic-to-my-channel reaction to Disney’s hypothetical reaction (- especially since Pixar IS part of Disney now, kinda <.>). Sometimes I feel that copyright holders don’t know what to do about fanwork. Some go for the jugular and demand complete deletion, but there’ll always be people who slip through the cracks and reupload, not to mention this just makes the company look nazi. On the other hand, what is the purpose of their work in the first place? Money? Should fanwork artists pay royalties, then? But what if they’re distributing it for free, or charging a small fee for production costs? Is a credit line sufficient? After all, and this brings us to the next point, it’s free advertisement. People will often check out the original work when told what they’re watching/listening to is a derivative of something. What do you think fanwork is? Free advertisement from diligent fans, or just a horrible bastardisation of the original?
While on Facebook, and completely unrelated to the rest of the post, I also found an advert link to Crowded Reality, apparently a ‘community-run’ reality show…that requires you to pay $39 to give your opinion. Hey, people pay me to give my opinion! XD Honestly though, I found it kinda odd, not to mention I’ve never heard of the company -> scam alert meter immediately goes up. Would you pay $39 to be one of 50000 people polling on the inner bits of a reality tv show? Part of the attraction of reality tv, to me, has always been looking at the challenges – new ones the producers come up with, and how the contestants react to it. Simply put, I’m a lazy viewer. Also keep in mind that if every one of the 50k pays up, that’s a cool 2 million…
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