Of course I'd rather distribute them in synch. But currently there's no regulation of synch licenses, placing my film - many films - at the mercy of corporations like Warner-Chappell and Sony. They are under no obligation to license anything, they can charge whatever they want, set whatever terms they want. They can block the release of content. They can and do kill films.
But they can't stop the consumer from synching at home. Yes, it's a pain - but a player could make it much less of a pain. And it has huge potential for independent filmmakers. That is a very big deal. Try to see this from a filmmaker's perspective. Filmmakers are told, "don't touch that music." Documentarians are just barely finding their way around synch rights hell thanks to Fair Use, but there are many ways to use music in film that haven't been defended as Fair Use yet. Most filmmakers have already "internalized the permission culture," and kill their ideas before they're born. But not all of us. A multi- source media player - let's call it an insyncherator - would give artists one more reason to think outside the permission culture. Yes, it's a pain. And frankly, pre-synched versions of "Sita" will surely be "pirated" and circulating before this grand scheme could come to fruition. But what a great alternative! What a way to raise awareness, too. --Nina On Sep 6, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody claiming to be Denver Gingerich wrote: >> Your situation seems to be a very small edge case: it is legal to >> distribute both the audio and the video for free separately, but it >> is >> not legal to distribute them combined (due to synch rights). > > This is the biggest problem. Really, you want to distribute them in > synch. Distributing a metadata file that says when to start both > sources is an option, but not much less of a pain. > > - -- > Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma > Please see <http://singpolyma.net> for how I prefer to be contacted. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIwsWa6oSxepE9BOsRAtVRAKDPNcuH5FQpkedz93LiD0k0Lao1CwCgyLG1 > JtC4cIGxpzVLAG0kVFmb4Yk= > =8VLj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
