Gentlemen Open Your Vaults
In to LCAD today. Doing my office hours in the Library as per. Have had a couple of students stop by but mostly talking to Peggy the Librarian about copyright. She handed me an AWN tirade on the purposed Orphan Works Law calling it legalized THEFT! A conspiracy by big business!
Copyright is currently life of the artist plus 70 years. Thanks to big business there was another 20 years added by the Sony Bono Law. That means that for upwards to 150 maybe 200 years somebody can set on a work and stop anybody from using it. Disney made it big on Public Domain but has changed its mind when Mickey was in danger. I have a feeling that big business is opposed Orphan Works Law.
I am showing Crusader Rabbit today in class. Not the TV Spots color crap but the Jay Ward / Alex Anderson masterpiece. The first made for television animation and you can not get it anywhere. You can not find it anywhere because Fox has had it locked in their vault forever.
Rhino tried to bring out Rabbit in the 80s thinking it was Public Domain. But Fox stopped them. Then did they bring out their own version? No! Still in the vault.
So I am showing a videotaped copy of a 16 mm print I made when I had a friend show Crusader Rabbit in one of my classes. So much of are animation history is locked up in vaults. It would be really nice if people had to use it or loss it.
The article from AWN: http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&article_no=3605
Purposed Law: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf
Copyright is currently life of the artist plus 70 years. Thanks to big business there was another 20 years added by the Sony Bono Law. That means that for upwards to 150 maybe 200 years somebody can set on a work and stop anybody from using it. Disney made it big on Public Domain but has changed its mind when Mickey was in danger. I have a feeling that big business is opposed Orphan Works Law.
I am showing Crusader Rabbit today in class. Not the TV Spots color crap but the Jay Ward / Alex Anderson masterpiece. The first made for television animation and you can not get it anywhere. You can not find it anywhere because Fox has had it locked in their vault forever.
Rhino tried to bring out Rabbit in the 80s thinking it was Public Domain. But Fox stopped them. Then did they bring out their own version? No! Still in the vault.
So I am showing a videotaped copy of a 16 mm print I made when I had a friend show Crusader Rabbit in one of my classes. So much of are animation history is locked up in vaults. It would be really nice if people had to use it or loss it.
The article from AWN: http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&article_no=3605
Purposed Law: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf
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