NC fail, but otherwise interesting feminist media history. - Rob.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [FC-discuss] vids: remix from the '70s; transformativeworks.org Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:45:26 -0500 From: Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular <disc...@freeculture.org> Reply-To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular <disc...@freeculture.org> "Vids are fan-made music videos that involve the re-cutting and remixing of footage from television shows or films. The history of vidding far predates YouTube (2003) and contemporary "remix" culture; rather, vidding dates from the 1970s, and is one of the many arts to have emerged from Star Trek and subsequent media fandoms. Moreover, vidding is particularly notable as a form of filmmaking primarily practiced by women, perhaps because women dominate media fandom generally, or perhaps because telling stories with extant footage has been one way to surmount the bar which hinders women's entry into the expensive and male-dominated film world. "The Vidding History project of the OTW is committed to documenting and celebrating the 35 year history of fan vidding. We believe that noncommercial works, like vids, that make creative use of existing copyrighted material are transformative, and that transformative works are legitimate under US copyright law." http://transformativeworks.org/projects/vidding-history OTW: http://transformativeworks.org "Transformative Works and Cultures is a peer-reviewed academic journal that seeks to promote scholarship on fanworks and practices. The first issue appeared on September 15, 2008. "TWC is a Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. TWC has been submitted for indexing in all major academic databases, open access directories, and services such as Google Scholar." http://transformativeworks.org/projects/twc peter _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list disc...@freeculture.org http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
