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remix legality
I'm wondering if audio copyright laws work the same as image copyright
laws. Can I put a song I have on iTunes into Audacity and mess with it?
The short version is that (a) the laws are much the same, and (b) you can edit/remix , depending on how much of it and what you do with it.
The issues involved include
- commercial vs non-commercial use of the copyright material
- impact on sales by author
- how much of the work is being reused
- "fair use" (which usually covers most academic uses, particularly if only small bits of the original are used)
Quoting from that article:
EFF won a new protection for people that rip DVDs and remix them and
post them on sites like YouTube.
The new rule holds that amateur creators do not violate the DMCA when
they use short excerpts from DVDs in order to create new,
noncommercial works for purposes of criticism or comment if they
believe that circumvention is necessary to fulfill that purpose.
Hollywood has historically taken the view that “ripping” DVDs is
always a violation of the DMCA, no matter the purpose.
“Noncommercial videos are a powerful art form online, and many use
short clips from popular movies. Finally the creative people that make
those videos won’t have to worry that they are breaking the law in the
process, even though their works are clearly fair uses. That benefits
everyone — from the artists themselves to those of us who enjoy
watching the amazing works they create,” added McSherry.
Ummm. What is this all about anyway?
It's about learning how to play around with sounds, images, video, and 3D models
on your laptop, eh? - Jim
Prof. Mahoney, can we sign our names with four tildes like you can on Wikipedia? ~~~~
Apparently not. --Evan
So what kind of formatting tricks are common between this and Wikipedia? ~~~~
Well, first of all, you can put colons (:) at the beginning of your comments so that they'll indent and form a thread. Just add one to the number of colons before the comment above (so the comment after this one will be preceded by four colons). If it gets too ridiculous, just continue the thread with no colons--this is called a margin reset or an indent reset. --Evan
Cool! Can I link internally by putting two brackets (this thing ->[ and this thing ->]) around the thing I want to link to? For example, is this a link to the
syllabus page? ~~~~
Not quite. This is an interesting development... --Evan
After you click "edit", there's a help link to the
markup syntax help page. The formatting rules are similar to but not the same as Wikipedia.
The link rules are also similar but not the same.
syllabus (double square brackets with leading slash) links to the syllabus page; the leading slash means "at the top level of this course." Basically here (unlike wikipedia) there are folders, and the brackets mean "that file in this folder." And two leading slashes means "at the top level of this wikiacademia installation". --Jim
Flash
Hey Jim, where would I go to learn about Adobe Flash? Will we be doing anything with Flash? --Evan
We aren't going to using Flash; it's owned by Adobe and propietary, so to get programs that edit it you need to pay real money and work with their tools. I've played around with it some, and there are a few attempts to create open tools that work with that technology. Mostly it's either GUI interfaces or programming API's; I've looked at the API's, not the GUI's.
You could start reading about it at
wikipedia: adobe flash. I've used
MTASC as a programming language with some success. I know very little about the GUI editing tools. - Jim
Live video combined with virtual 3d
--Davey
