HOT COCOA SHOW! This week we talk all about Copyright, Fair Use, Parody, Fan Art and more in a discussion that’s centered around a blog post I made on the topic a couple days ago (click here to check that would which ALSO has this episode embedded in it for good measure)! Creators on the internet mostly get the blame for using and sometimes abusing copyrighted material in their own creations. Sometimes they constitute something new and other times they’re not at all covered under fair use and are basically just stealing, whether intentional or not. As pointed out early in the show, ignorance is not a defense against copyright infringement. However! “Internet creators” are not unique in this area, there’s just a lot more artists sharing their work now than there used to be… and much of that work is the exploratory stuff nobody ever used to be privy to in the pre-internet age.

Because the copyright has been extended to such a degree that more of the art which is actually still relevant in our time is copyrighted (proportionate to in the past when the copyright term was much shorter), the risk of stepping into legal quicksand is actually even more probable now. More creators, being seen earlier in their careers than ever before, in a time of extended copyright on the pop culture that itself is uniquely used as a cultural reference point of expression… that’s complicated!! I aim to make things clearer for you by making it clearer for my co-host Rob in this episode of the podcast and help further in the companion blog post which I encourage you to check out.

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Media Referenced During this Episode:

Night of the Living Dead in the public domain (16:59 and again in more detail at 35:00 and a shoutout to James Rolfe’s Cinemassacre commentary at 37:19)

Little Shop of Horrors (1960) in the public domain (20:13)

Rob’s first “Mr. P. Dawgy and Simon” short (47:25)

Baby Got Back mashup video (57:50)

Vanilla Ice “explaining” why Ice Ice Baby is different than Queen / David Bowie’s Under Pressure (1:00:45)

“Saturday Morning Watchmen” by Harry Partridge (1:11:54)

“Thought of You” by Ryan Woodward (1:35:10)

Stephen’s first Instagram post

A photo posted by Stephen Brooks (@rubberonion) on Oct 13, 2015 at 9:33pm PDT

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This weeks should just be called RAPID FIRE week because half of the show is devoted to questions and topics you listeners asked us on my Facebook page… they’re all awesoRARAPID FIRRRREEEeeee! A new character gets introduced whose only interested in one thing, French animation astounds us, and we talk about a documentary on Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki that Rob and I saw.

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“The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness” clip

 
“The Little Prince” trailer (French)

 
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We have a lot of great stories this week about new animation based on existing properties like the “Dredd” fanimation, a stop-mo “Elf” holiday special & Todd McFarlane making a new “Spawn” animated series… and new stuff like the “Over the Garden Wall” miniseries! We LOVED doing the special episodes but it’s great to talk about animation news stories again and we want to know what YOU think about them too! Leave a comment below and share your thoughts on what we talked about

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Andrew Kaiko’s fan art

 
Chris McEwan’s fan art

 
Ronald Chaparro’s fan art

 
“The Tale of The Princess Kaguya” US dub trailer

 
“Judge Dredd: Superfiend” fanimation

 
“Over the Garden Wall” first look trailer

 
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