Comment on Call for Stories: Help the OTW Fight for Fair Use!

  1. Snowgrouse Fri 24 Nov 2017 11:51AM UTC

    Jaffar/Princess

    I don't know if I'd call it "ripping" myself, but AFAIK, it's the same thing copyright-wise? "Ripping" is usually used in reference to clips or entire movies, i.e. several frames in order to reproduce somthing that moves, like gifs or fanvids. Or when you just copy entire movies from the source (DVD, streaming site etc.) onto your hard drive and stuff. I often do that so I don't have to bung the DVD/Blu-Ray into the laptop's disc drive every time I just want to grab a few seconds off a movie to make a gif for Tumblr or to illustrate a fic.

    Hope that clarifies things:)

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    1. tahanrien Fri 24 Nov 2017 10:07PM UTC

      Thanks for the explanation. I also wasn’t sure if this was just about fanvids or gifs as well.

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      1. Snowgrouse Fri 24 Nov 2017 11:00PM UTC

        Jaffar/Princess

        For what it's worth, I don't think my definition is necessarily the same as Ao3's in this particular context--I get the feeling they count screencaps as well. But I'll leave it up to them to clarify (especially as I think copyright US law is more permissive about screencaps anyway); I just provided the usual definition of "ripping." And responded to the survey by giving examples of my spliced gifs and such (where I can get two actors/characters who never appeared in a movie together to look like they did), which I've used to illustrate my fics or to just tell a one-gif story in the past. (Hope it came through, BTW, as I got a 302 error at the end from the survey server.)

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