Thursday, April 26, 2007
YouTube, Video Napster?
Or If you are napping they will steal your film:
This is a follow-up to the Stop Look and Listen listing by Cartoon Brew http://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/stop-look-and-listen-1967 as a new posting on YouTube.
Just days before the authorized screening of Stop Look and Listen and 2 other Len Janson/Chuck Menville films as part of the Stop Mo Expo Film Festival these films show up on YouTube to great fanfare at Brew. Here is a news flash, no one talked to Len Janson before posting his film. No one asked him anything. They just posted it. And that is the way it always happens. Damn the copyrights, full speed ahead.
I am very ambivalent about the whole YouTube phenomena. To start with the quality is often bad and does not show the films in their best light but then again sometimes it is the only place you can see a film.
It is kind like my feelings on copyright in a microcosm, I am in favor of strong copyright enforcement but sometimes copyright is used, for what ever reason, as a means to keep historic films out of public view. (Fox, where are you hiding the Jay Ward/Alex Anderson Crusader Rabbits? I want to see them!)
The thing I love about Napster, I mean YouTube is the wild-west wide-open nature of the domain. The thing I hate about YouTube is the wild-west wide-open nature of the domain. You have to be constantly vigilant to protect yourself or somebody will post your life`s work and undercut your sales.
Which means the big guys, who are hoarding their films, will be protected because they can afford to have people checking and the little guys will get it in the neck. So what else is new?
Just as a note, there are a number of us trying to get Len and crew to get together a DVD of all of the Len Janson/Chuck Menville pixilation shorts. The question is, will there be a market for the higher quality DVD if everybody gets it in poor quality for free?
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy) ¶ 12:10 PM
Or If you are napping they will steal your film:
This is a follow-up to the Stop Look and Listen listing by Cartoon Brew http://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/stop-look-and-listen-1967 as a new posting on YouTube.
Just days before the authorized screening of Stop Look and Listen and 2 other Len Janson/Chuck Menville films as part of the Stop Mo Expo Film Festival these films show up on YouTube to great fanfare at Brew. Here is a news flash, no one talked to Len Janson before posting his film. No one asked him anything. They just posted it. And that is the way it always happens. Damn the copyrights, full speed ahead.
I am very ambivalent about the whole YouTube phenomena. To start with the quality is often bad and does not show the films in their best light but then again sometimes it is the only place you can see a film.
It is kind like my feelings on copyright in a microcosm, I am in favor of strong copyright enforcement but sometimes copyright is used, for what ever reason, as a means to keep historic films out of public view. (Fox, where are you hiding the Jay Ward/Alex Anderson Crusader Rabbits? I want to see them!)
The thing I love about Napster, I mean YouTube is the wild-west wide-open nature of the domain. The thing I hate about YouTube is the wild-west wide-open nature of the domain. You have to be constantly vigilant to protect yourself or somebody will post your life`s work and undercut your sales.
Which means the big guys, who are hoarding their films, will be protected because they can afford to have people checking and the little guys will get it in the neck. So what else is new?
Just as a note, there are a number of us trying to get Len and crew to get together a DVD of all of the Len Janson/Chuck Menville pixilation shorts. The question is, will there be a market for the higher quality DVD if everybody gets it in poor quality for free?
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy) ¶ 12:10 PM
