Songvid Oddities: Disney Multi-fandom - A Fair(y) Use Tale

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

Vidder: Eric Faden, et al.
Musical artist: S. Joplin
Pairing: None
Vidder on LJ: Unknown
Vidder's website: Stanford Fair Use Project
Why this vid kicks ass: For the last stop on our detour into YouTube land, I've decided to rec something a bit different. "A Fair(y) Use Tale" is not actually a fanvid, but rather a vid about fanvids that uses the techniques of fanvids. This was made as part of Stanford's Fair Use project, and it uses clips from Disney to talk about Copyright.

I hesitated for a long time before deciding to rec this on the Van, but the thing that swayed me in the end is that I find it really fascinating to see how people talk about fandom with their Real World hats on, and I figured that some of you might feel that way too. And yeah, this is political, but it's also surprisingly fannish: the echoes of fanvids are all the way through this, as you'll see even more clearly once I start reccing the multi-fandom vids that are going to finish up the rest of the drive.

YouTube: A Fair(y) Use Tale
Dowload @ Standford: A Fair(y) Use Tale

Comments

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Thank you for sharing.

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome; I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

I loved this! I do a lot of copyright request work for my job, and boy, there are days when I could kill the Disney corporation...

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

It's clever, isn't it? And yes, Disney has had a huge impact on the public domain and intellectual property laws, and I would argue not to any good end.