Is Vidding a Violation of Copyright Laws?

IS VIDDING A VIOLATION OF COPYRIGHT LAWS? MONDAY, JULY 11, 2011 Vidding is the practice of creating music videos from the footage of one or more visual sources in order to create the new way. They usually explore the content of a single person, or the romantic pairing between characters, by comparing or criticizing the text of an under-appreciated part of the show. It can come from TV shows, movies or music videos to make a position using a small clip from the original video or song lyrics. This can be done in the form of narrative storytelling or visual poetry, which is a visual essay that uses the source material to depict an aspect of how an authors sees the work. The problem with vidding is the use of online media to recreate videos used from others work. Copyright law says that material used to create these works is the direct property of those who originally produced the work for radio and television or film first. Due to this, some attorneys argue that this is breach of copyright law. There is one organization called the Organization for Transformation Works, who say that it falls under the fair use of exception of copyright law because there are only small snippets of video images being used to create the work and no profit is gained from using it. Youtube is one website where they caution the user against using copyright material and inform the user that their account will be deleted if any infringement of copyright is breached. Copyright came into practice to protect those who create keep control of artistic and intellectual ideas. "In England, John Locke called for the end of licensing altogether. He argued that the practice merely served to protect a publishing monopoly that had (in classic monopolistic practice) produced a scarcity of titles, poorly produced and sold at artificially high prices." Later on, book printers and sellers lost their state-granted licenses, they had to turn to another type of statutory law to protect their rights. These new Statutory Copyright Laws recognized the rights of authors to retain their own work, by making the right transferable. Drawing the line against using copyrighted material would have to go with making sure to give proper credit to the source being used in the creation. Also getting permission to use the material from the original producer of the work is another good way to avoid copyright infringement. Another way to go would be to use another name in place of the source being used, like when you see a red coke can in a television show and there is another name on the can instead of a copyright trademark. While we like to use other creators' work to reproduce creations, it is wise to keep in mind the laws of copyright infringement in order to avoid being accused of plagiarizing another's work. Sources Copyright and the commodification of culture www.waccglobal.org/.../648-Copyright-and-the-commodification-of-culture.html; Retrieved on July 9, 2011.