[videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Heath
That's not fair use, that is a remix, so I would say you are screwed. Fair use is generally when you use a clip or part of something to inform or use for teaching or to state an opinion (that get's cloudy) but taking a video and just adding yourself and making responses to the video, that's

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Rhodes
A remix can be fair use (Dara Birnbaum's work starting in the late 70s is just one example. here is one of her pieces and more are under related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jwkf-sQTWAfeature=related ) the sites I included have good explanations of fair use. -- Steve Rhodes

Re: [videoblogging] best format to upload to youtube

2007-12-22 Thread sjs Productions
thanks all for your responses. A great help On 12/20/07, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your clip is very short you could try a strategy someone on Ken Stone's site uses - compress to photojpeg at as high a quality as you can while staying within the 100MB limit. Since

[videoblogging] the inevitable conversation about what we're doing

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
Every 6 months or so, someone starts a conversation about what we're doing with videoblogging. how we make make a living. how we express ourselves. how we remain independent. how we become artists and/or businesspeople. Cheryl started the conversation on her blog. She took time to write her

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Brook Hinton
Unfortunately only a judge or jury ultimately gets to decide what's fair use, which means the person without the in house legal team is at the mercy of the person with legal resources regardless of who's right and who's wrong. Follow Steve's links above for the nitty gritty. This seems like an

[videoblogging] Apple TV dead?

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
I know Valleywag is not the place for hard breaking newsbut Ive noticed that Apple TV isnt getting much love these days: http://valleywag.com/337005/apple-tv-missing-from-companys-gift-guide Look for yourself. Apple's world-changing TV console, introduced just a few months ago, is completely

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast?
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:11 am, Jay dedman wrote: All the stories I hear make it seem like the video hosts' have no choice but to take down any video that is someone asks. They don't have to, but they do most of the time in the name of rear-end coverage. You do have a recourse to fight a

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast?
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:49 am, Brook Hinton wrote: Unfortunately only a judge or jury ultimately gets to decide what's fair use, which means the person without the in house legal team is at the mercy of the person with legal resources regardless of who's right and who's wrong. Brook is dead on

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
They don't have to, but they do most of the time in the name of rear-end coverage. You do have a recourse to fight a takedown in writing, and challenging in writing typically causes the host to review the material ... I used this once with YouTube to get the Stormtroopers Gone Wild video

[videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Lan Bui
John, I wonder if because she granted you use before, if she has the right to revoke that... It might seem like she would have that right, but you should check that out. BTW, I could not sit through her version. Your version actually got me all the way through, I laughed and actually heard

Re: [videoblogging] Video Resources - primers, guides and links

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
Just an interesting page of links I came across today and thought I'd share. Contains links relating to camcorder hacks, Aspect ratio, Interlacing, Video resolution, Colors, gamma and sampling formats, Standards conversion, Compression, and other resources.

[videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread ractalfece
Thank you Jay. It's great to have someone affirm your right to exist. I contacted the Fair Use Project and I read the documents at the Center for Social Media (Thank you Steve Rhodes!). I'm pretty sure my video is within the bounds. Of course it's still messy. Did I use too much of their

[videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread ractalfece
Thank you Lan. I was just writing about this when you posted. Here is what she said on July 14th: We aren't going to authorize it to be posted to our own video in connection, though, just to let you know, but we are happy to let you use our vid in your own profile stuff even though it is

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
Which brings up another point, my video was posted as a video response. I re-read their original message (from July 14th) after I posted my response. We aren't going to authorize it to be posted to our own video in connection, though, just to let you know, but we are happy to let you use

Re: [videoblogging] best format to upload to youtube

2007-12-22 Thread Adriana Kaegi
have tried to upload a 20 and 30 min video of less then 100 mb to youtube and i keep getting a message video is to long but it gives me the code? can anyone help me get those videos up on youtube? a Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I watched a video that said that softening the

RE: [videoblogging] best format to upload to youtube

2007-12-22 Thread Jake Ludington
have tried to upload a 20 and 30 min video of less then 100 mb to youtube and i keep getting a message video is to long but it gives me the code? can anyone help me get those videos up on youtube? YouTube has two maximums - 100MB and 10 minutes. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com

[videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread ractalfece
I'm taking your advice, Jay. All this pointy headed thinking has put me in the mood to make a humorous video about this situation. Controversy gets you views. And it makes the jokes better. since no one is making money hereit seems more a matter of this woman not having a sense of

[videoblogging] Flash Meeting today (tonight) depending on where you are....

2007-12-22 Thread Paul Knight
Hi all, Just to let you know that a great video conference has been organised and you are invited. Due to start at 11am California time, 2pm eastern time and 8pm GMT, so if you have the time and you have finished the christmas shopping and want to have a chat and meet the stars of

Re: [videoblogging] Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
John it is fair use do not worry google lawgeek and read his post on lane hartwell I did it for you: http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2007/12/copyright-fair.html Its a good post. Jason points out that the real issue isnt what law is being broken, but what are the *ethics* that we want to

[videoblogging] Flash Meeting today (tonight) depending on where you are....

2007-12-22 Thread Paul Knight
Hi all, Just to let you know that a great video conference has been organised and you are invited. Due to start at 11am California time, 2pm eastern time and 8pm GMT, so if you have the time and you have finished the christmas shopping and want to have a chat and meet the stars

[videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Chris
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Lan Bui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I could not sit through her version. Your version actually got me all the way through, I laughed and actually heard and understood her message. Oh, man. You need to send Bonny out to interview Christine Breese on the

[videoblogging] Participatory Culture class at RPI

2007-12-22 Thread andrew L.
hi vloggers just a note that this semester there will officially be a videoblogging and podcasting class at RPI in Troy, NY - and i will be teaching it yea. i am calling it Explorations in Participatory culture. If other professor-types have any syllabi help they want to lend it would be

[videoblogging] Thx all

2007-12-22 Thread Loiez D.
Thx Paul Knight to organize the last flashmeeting of the year Thx all to contribute to a new world Peace, love and vlogging Loiez Loiez D. http://www.loiez.org skype:ultimcodex [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
Oh, man. You need to send Bonny out to interview Christine Breese on the subject of Monkey Mind. It would truly be the Greatest Thing Ever. ;) Lan, please do this. they can mind meld. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video: http://ryanishungry.com Twitter:

[videoblogging] Re: Apple TV dead?

2007-12-22 Thread darbycoin
Yeah, I was reall suprised to read this... http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4236755.html?page=9 Popular Mechanics actually put forth the effort to name Apple Tv the second worst gadget of the year...and to think I almost bought one. First of all most of my movies I've ripped

[videoblogging] Wordpress Issue - Please Assist

2007-12-22 Thread darbycoin
Ok so I'm doing my first - host on your own - Wordpress blog. I used to do a lot of HTML and JAVA and early FLASH back in the early to mid nineties but gave up web coding when I become an English major and thought I had better things to write than scripts and webpages. So here's the deal...

Re: [videoblogging] iPod touch and vlog watching

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
so I'm at the apple store and salivating all over the iPod touch, as I do every time I pass by on Prince st. -so I started watching some videos from Verdi's page, then I checked to see how videos from my vlog played and there was no audio...?! -is it because I don't compress my videos

[videoblogging] iPod touch and vlog watching

2007-12-22 Thread Brian Gonzalez
so I'm at the apple store and salivating all over the iPod touch, as I do every time I pass by on Prince st. -so I started watching some videos from Verdi's page, then I checked to see how videos from my vlog played and there was no audio...?! -is it because I don't compress my videos small

Re: [videoblogging] iPod touch and vlog watching

2007-12-22 Thread gerry tejeda
Here's another thing that the iPod touch doesn't do. You won't allow you to watch The Gerry T Show on the iPod touch, because it ONLY support videos formatted in Quicktime and it doesn't support videos formatted in Flash. Now that really SUCKS! Gerry T The Gerry T Show Where Dating

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Apple TV dead?

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Rhodes
this is sort of a refrain for me this time of year, but wait until macworld It may be they will introduce a new model then. And they don't have a ton of inventory, so they're not promoting it. Though it would have made sense to introduce a new model before xmas On the other hand, jobs has said

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Apple TV dead?

2007-12-22 Thread Brook Hinton
Had it not required me to buy some gawdawful widescreen LCD TV I can't afford and have it sit there all ugly and shiny on my wall I would have considered buying an Apple TV. I like the concept. But my 25 year old 4:3 TV hidden away in a cabinet looks better, even w/the low res of letterboxing,

[videoblogging] Forget Apple TV - What about the Nintendo Wii ??

2007-12-22 Thread Frank Sinton
I just saw this chart - makes me think the path to the TV will not be through the Apple TV, but rather through the Wii (or PS3 or XBox360): http://www.vgchartz.com Has anyone experimented with online video on the Nintendo Wii? Looks like i will have a Wii in a few days. :) Building a Wii

[videoblogging] Re: Forget Apple TV - What about the Nintendo Wii ??

2007-12-22 Thread Heath
you can but mainly only Youtube right now, because the Wii is using Flash 7 I think?but I did find a way on Cnet to do something pretty neat with the Wii, a media stream device, download Orb and then use the Wii to watch videos or listen to music, I have yet to try it out but plan to soon,

Re: [videoblogging] iPod touch and vlog watching

2007-12-22 Thread gerry tejeda
Where can someone go on the web to learn how to convert an existing WMV video file to Quicktime iPod?? Thanks! Gerry T The Gerry T Show Where Dating Mating Always Come Together http://TheGerryTShow.Blip.TV http://GerryT.com Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: