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SUBVERSIVE VIDEO REMIX SUBVERSIVE VIDEO REMIX - BEFORE & AFTER YOUTUBE

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This presentation lays out the rules on engagement, taxonomy, and history of Subversive Video Remix, and also at the laws and rules (TOS) that currently govern this kind of creative work, plus some information about tools.

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SUBVERSIVE VIDEO REMIX

SUBVERSIVE VIDEO REMIX - BEFORE & AFTER YOUTUBE

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COPYRIGHT

&

FAIR

USE

GUIDELINES

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

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RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

1. Works appropriate mass media audiovisual source material without permission from copyright holders

2. Works comment on, deconstruct, or challenge dominant myths, norms, & traditional power structures, and they can be sympathetic or antagonistic to their sources, sometimes both at the same time.

3. Works transform the original messages embedded in the source material, as well as the source material itself.

4. Works are intended for general audiences or DIY communities rather than elite, academic, or high-art audiences; use familiar formats (trailers, TV ads, music videos, news segments) as vehicles for the new message.

5. Works are DIY productions and rely on grassroots distribution methods—VHS tape duplicating circles, underground screenings, self-hosted websites… now YouTube, and a myriad of other similar sites with TOS that are more favorable to and trusting of their user community.

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SUBVERSIVE REMIX TAXONOMY

Mashup (see I Am Not Moving)

Original visuals matched with disparate audio

http://bit.ly/184s3Fk

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Appropriation & Repurposing (see The Daily Show, Too Many Dicks on the Daily Show)

Use of propaganda and news materials to parody ideology.

http://bit.ly/184s3Fkhttp://bit.ly/qDHlwQ

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Fan Videos / Vidding (see Queer Carrie)Fan video of TV and film remixed to critique mainstream cultural narratives.

http://bit.ly/184s3Fkhttp://bit.ly/170b1Ui

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Video Scratching/Cultural Terrorism (see The Art of Video Scratching)

Recutting TV commercials and music videos

http://bit.ly/184s3Fkhttp://bit.ly/kQEvP

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Telejusting Juxtaposing or recasting characters from one narrative into another: requires some knowledge, if not fandom, of original source material.

http://bit.ly/184s3Fkhttp://bit.ly/xEy9q1

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SUBVERSIVE REMIX TAXONOMY Slash Vid (see The Son of Superman - Batman/Superman slash mpreg)

Fan videos about same-gender pairings, e.g. Kirk/Spock.

http://bit.ly/184s3Fkhttp://bit.ly/1ahIxKX

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SUBVERSIVE REMIX TAXONOMY Supercut Mashup (see Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up)

Obsessively cutting together all similar words or phrases from a particular piece of media OR obsessively cutting together words or phrases to make a single speaker appear to be saying (or singing) something other than the original message.

http://bit.ly/184s3Fkhttp://bit.ly/FRWRJa

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HISTORY / HERSTORY / QUEERSTORY

“GOOD ARTISTS BORROW. GREAT ARTISTS STEAL.” ~ Picasso

Traceable back to 1920’s Soviet Russia and Esfir Shub’s compilation documentaries: non-fiction films made from existing footage – which can allow for the reconfiguration of history [see also Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg's Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community (1986)]

“A LOT OF REMIX CULTURE IS JUST BACKYARD THEATER GONE HIGH-TECH.” ~ Francesca Coppa

Vidding started in 1975 with Kandy Fong, a Star Trek fan, who made the first ever vid, at a convention, setting a slideshow to music.

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VIDDING SOCIAL NETWORK Vidding is Social Media. Vids are social media.

Female dominated networks that cohere around social investment in media properties and that produce and share textual, visual, and video art based on ‘their’ TV shows and films. WHAT IS VIDDING? [VIDEO BREAK]

Self-conscious, self-replicating: vidders provide support for artistic expression and modes of critical speech, as well as training and tools for how to make a vid.

User-Generated/User-Penetrated Content + User Generated Filtering + User Generated Organization +

User Generated Distribution + User Generated Commentary.

NETWORKS mediawest Media West http://vividcon.com/ Vivid Con http://fpvideos.proboards.com/ Foolish Passion Fan Video Community http://fanlore.org/wiki/Vidding_Fandom Fanlore http://remixedmedia.org/about-the-festival/ Remixed Festival http://diymedia.net/collage/truth.htm DIY Media (audio) http://vidders.net/main Vidders Vidding Social Network

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COPYRIGHT V. FREE SPEECH

FIRST AMENDMENT, FAIR USE, (and TERMS OF SERVICE) COPYRIGHT EXPANSION

• Derivate works (1976) & transformativeness • DMCA (1996) & and an end to copying

DMCA Exemption

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[MOSTLY] FREE TOOLS

http://www.mediahuman.com/ MEDIA HUMAN http://www.imtoo.com/download-youtube-video-mac.html IMTOO http://www.youtubetomp3.com/ YOUTUBETOMP3 http://keepvid.com/ KEEP VID http://www.macxdvd.com/dvd-ripper-mac-free/ MAC X DVD RIPPER http://www.macxdvd.com/free-youtube-video-downloader-mac/ MAC X DVD YOUTUBE VIDEO DOWNLOADER EDITORS: iMovie, Movie Maker, Premiere, Final Cut, KDEN Live, LightWorks, VLMC, LiVES, Open Movie Editor, etc.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY Jenkins, Henry, “What Happened Before YouTube,” YouTube, Online Video and Participatory Culture. Ed. Jean Burgess, Ed. Joshua Green. Polity Press, 2009. 109-126. Print. The Vidder:Luminosity upgrades fan video. Logan Hill, New York Magazine,Nov. 12, 2007. [http://nymag.com/movies/features/videos/40622/] Remixing Television: Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground. Jesse Walker, Reason, August/September 2008. [http://reason.com/archives/2008/07/18/remixing-television] Genealogy of Vidding A Genealogy of Vidding genre program complete with co-curator Francesca Coppa's remarks. Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It. Rebecca Tushnet, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 114, No. 3 (Dec., 2004), pp. 535-590 http://tushnet.blogspot.com/2012/06/dmca-remix.html “Us” A Multi-vid by Lim [http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2008/02/01/us-a-multivid-by-lim] Alexis Lothian. "Living in a Den of Thieves: Fan Video and Digital Challenges to Ownership. "Cinema Journal 48.4 (2009): 130-136. Project MUSE. Web. 18 Sep 2012. <http://muse.jhu.edu/> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction