If you are trapped in the modality of “you are such a sell-out!” then two of the biggest YouTube success stories, Chocolate Rain and OK Go are nothing more than sell-outs.
OK Go created a video for their song “Here It Goes Again,” (first video above) featuring the band doing a synchronized dance routine on treadmills [...]
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With the return of much of late-night television, including the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, the writers’ strike will be ending soon, right? Not likely with the recent cancellation of the Golden Globes. Networks will be running out of new scripted shows (it seems like with the exception of original-flavor Law and Order), so [...]
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The study, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, suggests strongly that remix culture is not only socially acceptable, but should also be legally acceptable because transformative reuse falls within the fair use exception/defense to copyright. The issue of using portions of copyrighted material in videos as a form of quoting has previously [...]
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A recent phenomenon that is almost a reverse corollary to snark fandom (being part of a fandom, yet poking fun of the object of that fandom) is object de fandom creating campaigns seemingly designed to make all of your biggest fans leave in disgust. Of course, the RIAA is the best recent example. But there [...]
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