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New 'Lupin III' Commentary Track Celebrates The Glories Of Ignoring Copyrights (terrania.us)
In 2004, film critic Roger Ebert "realized that auteurs weren't the only ones who had things to say about movies, and suggested that experts in other fields or even just fans of the movies could create MP3 commentary tracks to discuss their favorite films, which could then be downloaded and played alongside them." This inspired Slashdot reader #14,247 to produce his own commentary on Hayao Miyazaki's first movie, Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro -- and 13 years later, to release a new commentary track celebrating the film's 35th anniversary. Robotech_Master writes:
Among other things, it offers proof that excessive copyright really harms creativity by restricting the uses people are able to make of prior art -- by showing what can happen when people get away with ignoring copyright and creating anyway. Not only were Lupin III and Cagliostro effectively inspired as "fanfic" of characters and works that had come before, many of those characters and works were effectively fanfic themselves -- and Cagliostro in turn inspired parts of a number of other works that came afterward, including a couple by Disney.
Anyone else have a favorite example of a movie that bends the rules of copyright law?
Anyone else have a favorite example of a movie that bends the rules of copyright law?
Which kicked off a brief Golden Age in American cinema.
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Disney makes it's money from redoing fairy tales. Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book. If the current "forever" copyright regime had been in place when those stories were first written Disney would not have been able to take and make them its own.
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Slashdot reader #14,247
We are members/participants. Asshole.
ANYTHING to draw attention from the real issues.
...because this summary makes almost no sense without them. Someone makes a commentary track for a film and then makes another 13 years later and that's sticking it to the Copyright Man, is that it? ...mmkay...
I'm not really here to plug this, but when it crossed my RSS feed, the timing made it such that I thought users might be interested.
(No, I'm serious. I wasn't going to post it. It just happens to be topical.)
I have a podcast called Tales From SYL Ranch
that I'm re-launching under my own domain starting July 4. I had previously hosted on //aNONradio// but when I sort of "found my voice," I decided to go pro.
In this case, "my voice" was a feature I developed called The Old Fan's Commentary.
You see, I'm an old man. And not a fake old man like Mr. Plinkett, but a real old man like Abe Vigoda. I make commentaries not so much about the films but about fandom of the period. On the July 4 edition, there's a Commentary on Space: 1999 .
Again, not particularly trying to plug it. I just happen to be doing it. After Space: 1999 I'm doing Star Wars: The Despecialized Edition. The week after that, The Star Wars Holiday Special. I have a bunch of stuff already in the can.
Just thought I'd mention it.
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I know millennials (anyone under 35) hate having to honor the rights of other people (because you are mostly insufferable, ignorant little twats that haven't created much but farts yourselves) but without copyright there will be no films (or songs, or games, or or or) for you to co-opt, geniuses. The alternative is that all media will come from the state (lol! Do you honestly believe they would let you make things that YOU want to make? So naive) and we will see ten times the Censored and thought directed bullshit we already witness in Disney properties. I so wish you knew how to think. You don't, so please have the decency to either be willing to learn or step aside. I won't say that some don't abuse copyright, they do, but you have gone waaaay beyond tiresome, and the solution to a problem is very, very rarely total annihilation. It sucks so to do so late in life (blame your parents, not us) but you'll just have to learn to be functional and respect other people (ESPECIALLY those you disagree with) if you ever expect to be happy, productive, and thriving.
How about Marvel trying to copyright the word "SuperHero" and suing the shit out of people who referred to characters in their movies as Superheroes?
That shit swings both ways.
Copyright is so restrictive that you have to creatively take content and remold it to be used in your own work instead of making a carbon copy of the original or making a non-creative* derivative work. Compare AM2R to Freedom Planet. One decided to stick so close to the original that it was C&Ded. If they had been more creative, they could had a Metroid-like game and probably went much farther to establishing a whole new game series. Just like Freedom Planet did.
In fact, the major point of making a derivative work is mostly to exploit the Trademark (Lupin III, Metroid, Sonic) to one's own ends. Yes, for fanfics this is often about trying to basically hijack the storyline and make it what one wants. But in the end, the "original" authors end up deciding what's canon and what's not. Through copyright, they can even decide to make a fanfic author's work canon.
* If you want to claim extensive copyright hurts creativity, you really should be looking at sequalitis. Or the fact we're going to see a Metroid 2 remake and Metroid Prime 4. And I'm a huge Metroid fan. But, I'd much prefer they were to, you know, put in the effort to create a whole new storyline and characters instead of trying to milk out what is, in many ways, a lucky break. Oh, and also because as a Metroid fan I hate how as the copyright holders, their "creativity" involves having Samus speak which is really antithetical to the "lone wolf hero". Like Star Wars. Or >insert just about any series that lasts for any length of time<.
It's a fairly well known story, but The Monkey Island series was itself inspired by a Lucasarts game designer's trip to Disneyland and experience of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" exhibit. The twist here is that a film adaptation of Monkey Island was in development, but the project fell through. The original scriptwriting team then ended up pitching the basic plot/premise as the Pirates of the Caribbean film adaptation. And this included incorporating many, many elements and plot devices that were original to Monkey Island into the Pirates of the Caribbean universe.
But that summary is incomprehensible. In part, I suspect, because user #14,257 *IS* user "Robotech_Master," and the editor seemed to want to obfuscate that fact, which, though not critical, does certainly flavor the whole point of this posting.
Kurosawa was not happy.
I'm not going to watch Lupin III until I see the first two movies. How would you like it if I spoiled Rocky VII by telling you how Adrian got revenge?
Kimba the white lion was made in the 50's with tv series from the 60's and Disney made a movie virtually identical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimba_the_White_Lion
In the anime Battle Programmer Shirase, in the last episode, the staff thank foreign viewers who watched the fansubs of the show. While Aria the Scarlet Ammo is probably the best adaptation of a Lupin story because of the tsundere awesomeness of Kugumiya Rie.
The second episode of Magical Girl Pretty Sammy has Bill Gates as Biff Standard with his Standardsoft operating system. The good guys use Pineapple OS.
What's an auteur?
I HAVE NOTHING to say here..
so, please dont mind me as i DON MY knee PADS
A comment track which "combines" original content(==the comment track) with existing copyrighted content, is exactly the same pattern than what piracy groups used when they added intros to existing computer games - before releasing pirated copies of the products. They wanted their own content to be shown next to the "most popular content on the planet". This whole practise is very evil -- instead of respecting author's right to control how audience sees the product, these people took away that control, added their own content next to it, and then illegally distributed (usually much more burdensome) products.
The evil thing here is "attaching your own work alongside of something that is _already popular_, or becoming popular".. Doing this attach operation without permission from the copyright owner is always illegal activity. Many of the (small) companies are doing this operation, when they don't understand copyright rules well enough -- they would learn the rules when create the products completely from scratch themselves.
I don't really understand why these people think this activity is acceptable. It's clear copyright infringement, if the product they release include parts which were not original creations of the people doing the releasing. Copyright is nice in that it regognizes the effort that authors are spending for the creation of the products and authors shouldn't need to compete against his own products. Any combination-product that takes someone elses film or movie and combines it with low-quality audio track is clearly broken product -- original products should not have dependencies or requirements to use some other products. Every product should stand on it's own merits, and not freeride on someone elses popularity.
Why would I know anything about the legal details of movies I'm watching? And why the fuck would I care?
Is this something you nerds are into?
If there is one movie that happily ignores copyright, it’s La Classe Américaine (1993), a.k.a. The Great Détournement.
God, root, what is difference ?
Property Rights aren't perpetual either, even if you exclude property loss due to lack of paying taxes/tax hikes/etc. Hell, based on 'native/aboriginal' treatment the world over, they end when someone else wants what you have, eminent domain or no.
What I am saying is: Perhaps it is time for eminent domaining of copyright to be allowed, for the government, at the behest of third parties to be able to reassign or public domain copyright works for the better moneti^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hutilzation and progress of America greed^H^H^H^H^H^Hcapitalism^H^H^H^H^H^Hpublic benefit.
Because really with the current copyright terms as well as the current pilfering of both public works, and 'publicly funded works', there is no reason to go on pretending any of this is for the public benefit.
Just finished Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's fanfiction, and is basically Harry Potter in an alternate universe. Funny, heavier on science and logic, also written as if Ender's Game was mixed in. I found it fantastic. Thankfully JK Rowling is apparently content to let it be as long as it's not a commercial endeavor, so that it's allowed to exist.
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It did have Kugimiya doing her thing in a Kugimiya character, but I found Aria forgettable.
OT: The gold age of fansubs ended a while back, because of market forces. Well, no, they're pretty distinct from the copyright ones stifling art so still off-topic I guess.
OT for serious: My favorite example of such movies are the countless Disney ones that mock the idea of "someone owning a story they created".
We all know that Romero and O'Bannon created the modern notion of the zombie in "Night of the Living Dead" and failed to copyright it, which is what makes pretty much 25 percent of all fiction today legally possible. Right? RIGHT????!!!!!
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