Well - I would never sue anyone at all about copyright because there is not a legal leg to stand on. What there is - however - is fan-etiquette, and right now my vids are available pretty freely. I have yet to password-protect my site and lock down my LJ or even remove my vids from internet sharing entirely and I accept that because of this - there are some risks. I also have allowed distribution of my vids on the WOAD discs, the Slayage discs and Vividcon and Escapade discs - so I also accept that there is some risk in that.
I do not send my vids to cons where I know for a fact that there will be anyone associated with the show because -dude- if you throw it in their face in public (like the infamous Firefly vid debacle) then the studio is forced to protect its copyright and I am looking at a cease and desist letter. This is why most vidders are paranoid and control freaks - we want to keep vidding. I know that allowing net distribution is a risk. I know that allowing DVD distribution is a risk - and I accept that this is a result of that (having a vid shown without my consent at a con. Seriously, though - I RARELY give consent to have a vid shown at a con I am not attending. I have to have a trusted friend --or several--attending and know *a lot* about the con before I will do this because I do not want to be shut down) but I am still *extremely* worried about this and think the organizers of this con - even if they meant no ill will - are jerks for just showing this without ever once contacting me. Correction - they are unthinking jerks.
I know this does not see like an appropriate response to you. I know that usually when you make something and people enjoy it then the appropriate response is gratitude. But we ask that there be no public showing of our work without our consent because we want to keep doing this. When other people blithely disregard this and think "Oh this is wonderful - I want to show this to everyone, so I will" without ever once contacting the person who made it (and I am soo very easy to find) that is not polite. And it could cause me some extreme problems in the future. Again - no legal issue against the organizers - I am pissed, not litigious.
At the very least I will probably take down my vids from the net for a while.
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I do not send my vids to cons where I know for a fact that there will be anyone associated with the show because -dude- if you throw it in their face in public (like the infamous Firefly vid debacle) then the studio is forced to protect its copyright and I am looking at a cease and desist letter. This is why most vidders are paranoid and control freaks - we want to keep vidding. I know that allowing net distribution is a risk. I know that allowing DVD distribution is a risk - and I accept that this is a result of that (having a vid shown without my consent at a con. Seriously, though - I RARELY give consent to have a vid shown at a con I am not attending. I have to have a trusted friend --or several--attending and know *a lot* about the con before I will do this because I do not want to be shut down) but I am still *extremely* worried about this and think the organizers of this con - even if they meant no ill will - are jerks for just showing this without ever once contacting me. Correction - they are unthinking jerks.
I know this does not see like an appropriate response to you. I know that usually when you make something and people enjoy it then the appropriate response is gratitude. But we ask that there be no public showing of our work without our consent because we want to keep doing this. When other people blithely disregard this and think "Oh this is wonderful - I want to show this to everyone, so I will" without ever once contacting the person who made it (and I am soo very easy to find) that is not polite. And it could cause me some extreme problems in the future. Again - no legal issue against the organizers - I am pissed, not litigious.
At the very least I will probably take down my vids from the net for a while.