Combat vidding

[rivkat]

misterrivkat pointed out this story about US soldiers making music vids of their bloody experiences.

Comments

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link. I'm going to send it to my Army man.

[marici.livejournal.com]

My sympathy leans toward the soldiers: we ask sane, kind people to make the mental adjustments that allow them to kill quickly and often, then are surprised to see that their treatment of the people they kill is without compassion. I oppose aggressive war partly because we've seen the same terrible price in the injury to our own people's minds in every war we've ever fought.

[nightchik.livejournal.com]

whoa

[park-hye-in.livejournal.com]

Hi there...I just friended you (randomly, kind of a friends'-friends'-friendslist thing), and wow. This link gave me a lot to think about.

[iocaste212.livejournal.com]

Hey, RivkaT. Quick question: What's the legal status of fanfic these days? I don't keep up with the latest court cases; I'd have thought that the Wind Done Gone case would be very helpful, but am I right that everything's still in flux, and that fanfic very likely would be found to violate copyright? Or is my info outdated?

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=rivkat&keyword=Fan+fiction+and+the+law&filter=all) in my memories I've linked to the available bibliography on the subject. There's a student note published a year or so ago that updates my article, though I don't agree with everything she says. My opinion is that web fanfic is highly likely to be fair use; zines are a tougher issue, though after Wind Done Gone probably also okay. Art and vids are trickier, but the written word has a privileged status in fair use these days when it comes to creative response to copyrighted materials.