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More news and links about the DMCA victory!

Submitted by .fcoppa on

The Copyright Office now has information about the new ruling up on their website. Particularly interesting is the Statement from the Librarian. The full text of the decision is available as a .PDF.

Coverage of the decision is coming out fast; we'll keep updating. Please feel free to comment with links we haven't seen.

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U.S. Library Of Congress Grants DMCA Exemption for Vidders!!

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The OTW's Legal and Vidding Committees have just been informed that the Library Of Congress is about to release a (long-awaited!) ruling granting a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) exemption to makers of noncommercial remix, which includes vidding, anime music videos, political remix videos and the like. Previously film studies professors had the only exemption: now documentary filmmakers, makers of noncommercial video, and media studies teachers are also permitted to circumvent DMCA technologies if they need to in order to teach or to make artistic statements.

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Rumblefish Proposes (Highly Restrictive) Song Licensing System

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The New York Times reports that a company called Rumblefish is partnering with YouTube to license songs to amateur video artists for use in noncommercial videos at $1.99 each. At the moment, they do not represent any major labels, though they are hoping to expand (don't hold your breath, given the difficulties the major labels have had with most new business models).

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News of Note

Stellungnahme der Organisation für Transformative Werke

Dies ist die Stellungnahme, die von Rebecca Tushnet im Auftrag der Organisation für Transformative Werke (Organization for Transformative Works – OTW) zur Unterstützung des Vorschlags der Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) zur Einrichtung einer gesetzlichen Ausnahmeregelung für folgende Medien vorgelegt wurde:

Auf DVD erschienene audiovisuelle Werke, bei denen das Copyright zum Zwecke der Einbeziehung von Teilstücken in nicht kommerzielle und nicht urheberrechtsverletzende Videos umgangen wird.1

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Vidding

Itinerario del Vidding

Este plan de trabajo o itinerario enumera las diversas funciones y servicios que esperamos poder ofrecer a los vidders, los fan artistas y la inmensa comunidad de fans. Nuestras prioridades son estabilidad y sustentabilidad - queremos construir servicios que funcionen a largo plazo con nuestros recursos, y que ayudarán a proteger los vids y a mantener a la comunidad de vidding juntos en un cambiante clima jurídico y económico

Nuestro plan de trabajo incluye:

1. Lugares con recursos para la comunidad de Vidding

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Vidding

Proyectos de Vidding

Los vids son obras transformativas de los fans, hechas editando pequeños cortes de una filmación, generalmente a partir de fuentes de acción en vivo, como programas de televisión o películas, en videos musicales que plantean un argumento o cuentan una historia. Esta página contiene un listado de todos los proyectos de la OTW, recursos y servicios que ofrecemos actualmente a los vidders y a la gran comunidad de vidding. Por favor, ten en cuenta que esta es una página en progreso; ¡Estamos trabajando para tener todo en funcionamiento tan rápido como sea posible!

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OTW at the RE/Mixed Festival, NYC May 30th, 2010

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Fans of remix culture! If you're in or around NYC on Sunday, May 30th, consider coming down to the RE/Mixed Media Festival 2010 at the Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. The festival's schedule includes: video remixes, discussions with remix artists and DJs, a panel on gaming culture, lots of DJs and musical remixes and even a remixed fashion show. Mimosas will be served at the 2 pm opening and best of all--it's free.

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Announcing: Our Vidding Roadmap

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The Board of the OTW is pleased to release its Vidding Roadmap, a guide to the various features and services that we hope to be able to offer vidders, fan artists, and the larger fan community. Our priorities are stability and sustainability -- we want to build services that will work long-term with our resources, and that will help protect vids and help keep the vidding community together in a changing legal and economic climate. Full Roadmap beneath the cut!

Our Roadmap includes:

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Announcement
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Fan Video Roadmap

This Roadmap lists the various features and services that we hope to be able to offer fan video makers. Our priorities are stability and sustainability — we want to build services that will work long-term with our resources, and that will help protect fan videos in a changing legal and economic climate.

Our Roadmap includes:

1. Resources for Fan Video creators

The OTW will host a collection of information and resources we hope will be useful to the larger community of fan video makers.

Resources will include:

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Vidding

Fan Video and Multimedia

Fans create a wide variety of multimedia works, including fan art, vids, anime music videos, political remixes, fan films, fan trailers, machinima, podfic and audiobooks, and others. The OTW is committed to providing access to and preserving the history of these works, and our Fan Video and Multimedia projects are intended both to provide information and resources to the larger fan video community and to help explain and contextualize these works to the larger world.

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