"Over protecting intellectual property is as harmful as under protecting it. Culture is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new. Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Over protection stifles the very creative forces it’s supposed to nurture."

- Judge Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in the White v. Samsung Elec. Am., Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993) ruling.

For those that don't remember the last time (it was defeated in the US Congress back in 2006 thanks to a large body of opposition from artists, photographers, designers, etc.), the act was to amend copyright law such that any work not officially registered would become excluded from most copyright protections.

Seems to be a week for them... Here is an interview in New York Magazine with the Vid editor Luminosity (a Vid is like an AMV but with live action video).

BTW, if you haven't seen any of Luminosity's work go check it out, she's very good.

I see that the Japan Times has run a story on AMVs and Remix Culture - both topics that have been near and dear to my heart for a number of years.

It is quite a good article.

It seems that Tanya Andersen, the disabled single mother the RIAA was chasing a while back (the case got dropped) is bringing a class action suit against the RIAA.

And look what it is for: negligence, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, federal and state RICO, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespass, invasion of privacy, libel and slander, deceptive business practices, misuse of copyright law, and civil conspiracy.

Share, reuse, and remix - legally. I am almost certainly going to start releasing all personal stuff this way.