Join the club. One of my--well, I hesitate to call it a "peeve" because it's so much more than that...okay, PEEVES--is clip theft from existing vids. There are the usual arguments--that we're all stealing from the professional source (fallacious), that we're entitled to whatever's out there because we're fans (fallacious), etc., ad infinitum ad nauseaum. Someone asked me if a vidder saw my vids and liked what she saw so much that she "copied it exactly," would I feel so strongly that it was theft. My answer? Go for it! I manipulate nearly every clip I put on a timeline in some way, and *I* am hard-pressed to recreate what I've done. *g* I know a lot of other vidders who do the same thing, and to see those specifically manipulated clips in another vid is just *jarring*. shutting up now before I start to screech
Sigh. And now I'm a pretentious, elitist vidder, and that's okay with me. Vidding is my passion and my art, and I'm very defensive of it on a personal level--whether anyone else likes my stuff or not. You know? I'm so glad to have discovered it and to have discovered my abilities in it.
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Join the club. One of my--well, I hesitate to call it a "peeve" because it's so much more than that...okay, PEEVES--is clip theft from existing vids. There are the usual arguments--that we're all stealing from the professional source (fallacious), that we're entitled to whatever's out there because we're fans (fallacious), etc., ad infinitum ad nauseaum. Someone asked me if a vidder saw my vids and liked what she saw so much that she "copied it exactly," would I feel so strongly that it was theft. My answer? Go for it! I manipulate nearly every clip I put on a timeline in some way, and *I* am hard-pressed to recreate what I've done. *g* I know a lot of other vidders who do the same thing, and to see those specifically manipulated clips in another vid is just *jarring*. shutting up now before I start to screech
Sigh. And now I'm a pretentious, elitist vidder, and that's okay with me. Vidding is my passion and my art, and I'm very defensive of it on a personal level--whether anyone else likes my stuff or not. You know? I'm so glad to have discovered it and to have discovered my abilities in it.