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1. DVD Ripping Guide (Guides/DVD Ripping Guide)

... from motion pictures in noncommercial remix videos (a practice commonly called "vidding"). Vidding includes things like Anime Music Videos (AMVs) and other similar types of music videos common on YouTube, ...

2. My Experiences with the DMCA on YouTube (Other/Articles)

Originally published as "Square Enix Abuses the DMCA Takedown Process" A few months ago I wrote a post on why anime music videos (AMVs) would likely be considered fair use under US copyright law. ...

3. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Other/Articles)

... since high school of creating “anime music videos” or AMVs (music videos setting footage from anime shows and video games to popular songs) and posting them on websites such as YouTube and animemusicvideos.org. ...

4. It Pays to Know your Rights under Copyright Law (Other/Articles)

... that same song on YouTube, including several other Final Fantasy AMVs. Because I defended my rights under copyright law and other users didn’t, my video is now one of only a few videos using that song, ...

5. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... (at least if you are in the US--I've been seeing a lot of foreign users having counter-notices denied by YouTube without following the normal process, which I'm still investigating). On one of my AMVs, ...

6. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

... in the past on a couple other AMVs, and was able to dispute them just as easily, although the procedure was slight different. Thanks for the heads up on this, and for giving me (and other) creators the ...

7. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Comments)

Hi Patrick, What a wonderful website you have! Thanks for all the important information. We have an audio post-process for which we created a series of original AMVs (16 of them!)and clearly call them ...

8. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Comments)

Quite true. There is considerable ambiguity and disagreement on this point. I completely agree it is certainly not clear cut whether AMVs would truly be ruled fair use. You're right Lessig said that, though ...

9. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Comments)

I did check out one of the interesting sources you mention at the end of the article(the Stanford U professor Lawrence Lessig). Discussing the remix culture in general and referring specifically to AMVs, ...

10. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Comments)

... Even if you don't actually edit the song, syncronizing it with the video adds a "new meaning or message" to it which courts have held is transformative use. The way most people make AMVs, the music provides ...

11. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Comments)

Great website, especially the parts on copyfraud. However, I would argue that AMVs would fail to meet all four fair use criteria, especially with regard to the music 1. The music is not really being transformed ...

12. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Comments)

THANK YOU!!! Finally a solid defense for AMVs. I agree with Evan, you should send this to YouTube. At the very least, it would make them think twice about removing someones video. ...

13. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Comments)

Thank you. That's all I can really say. I have been making AMVs for almost six months now, have over 130 subscribers on YouTube, and really put a lot of work into my videos. I don't see why they aren't ...

14. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Comments)

this article was amazing! i've been making AMVs for moths and i have about 5 or 6 on my youtube but i always run into the thrid-party copyright infringement. this clears alot of things up about why i keep ...

15. YouTube Refuses to Honor DMCA Counter-Notices (Comments)

If it's Sony Music not UMG you should still be okay sending a counter-notice to get your videos restored. As I've written elsewhere on this site, I strongly believe AMVs are fair use. ...