Disney Video Used to Explain Copyright 234
Recently a pretty amazing video surfaced that used clips from Disney films to explain copyright law. It was created by Eric Faden of Bucknell University and must have taken an insane amount of time to assemble. Now you have to wonder how long before someone gets sued over it. Also here is a corel cache version as well as a link to the original page.
Very well thought through thinking... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Description, please! (Score:2, Interesting)
With the acceleration of culture and technology, shouldn't the modern duration of copyright (and other intellectual property rights) be shorter than the original 17 years, rather than longer? The video makes the excellent point that all new works borrow from existing materials (culture), and so should revert to the culture (public domain) after the owners and/or creators have had reasonable opportunity to profit from their works.
Re:Buzz "Copy" Lightyear (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm Eric Faden the director of the film . . . and yes, Buzz provided the only clear enuciation of the word "copy" that we could find. The Monster's Inc. enuciation at the end of the film couldn't be isolated clearly enough. It was quite interesting to see what words Disney films avoided like the plague: "copy" "piracy" "artist" (very interesting) "creativity."
As an FYI, there will be a director's commentary on the MEF DVD release (in June) that talks about the ideas and challenges of putting the film together.
And thanks to everyone at Slashdot for the great comments . . .
best,
e
Re:Ummm... copyright is civil (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Description, please! (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Bravo! (Score:5, Interesting)
So not as much effort went into this as the story poster intoned. It's not like someone manually scanned through these movies and TV shows to watch and listen for the needed words.
Dan East
Re:Disney irony (Score:5, Interesting)
For fun, compare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_doma
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_anima