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Copyright, Fair Use, Parody and Fan Art – What Animators Should Know

Stephen Brooks — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:23:38 +0000

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.

Listen for The Blob Blog, what started the hipsters hypothesis, “that’s pathetic, bro” and Happy Birthday!

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Topics & Timestamps:

(9:10) What is Copyright?

(10:32) Is that the same as plagiarism?

(16:38) What is the Public Domain?

(23:10) Talking about Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

(28:21) Dreamworks’ new Mr. Peabody & Sherman Netflix series and Rob’s new parody short

(36:24) Copyright Act of 1976, how it helped and how it messed everything up!

(42:12) What is Fair Use?

(50:26) The four factors used by a judge to decide if a work is covered under Fair Use

(1:06:16) Parody vs Satire… what’s the difference?

(1:16:25) Is Fan Art legal?

(1:19:16) Derivative and Transformative works

(1:25:51) What’s the deal with Fan Fiction?

(1:30:56) Cease and Desist letters (C&D’s)

(1:44:03) TL;DR (or… TL;DL?)

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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Danger Mouse Review, Top 5 Cartoons based on R-Rated movies, and “Mr Peabody & Sherman Show” on Netflix

Stephen Brooks — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 19:23:00 +0000

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SEGMENT EPISODE! This week I give my Danger Mouse Review, we list our Top 5 “Cartoons Based on R-Rated Movies,” talk about the animation news of the week in depth and the rest get put in the audience favorite Rapid Fire! segment (this time with a time limit). We also talk about our recent animated short, some of the easter eggs in there and I give you some tips on best practices in Adobe Flash as well as character turnarounds.

Listen for Stephen’s comparison of Michael Bay’s “Transformers” franchise to Donald Trumps 2016 presidential campaign, a GI Joe / Muppet Babies theme mashup, and “leeches, bro.”

Oh and how could I forget, there’s a new design for the podcast! I really hope you enjoy this 2hr episode and would love to hear what you think in the comments section below.

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Topics & Timestamps:

(8:29) Stephen’s first-impression review of the 2015 “Danger Mouse” reboot on the CBBC

(23:48) Animation News of the Week…

(24:28) “Be Cool Scooby-Doo” animated clip which premiered on Oct 5th, 2015

(32:00) Opening Titles for “The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show” and its Bumblebeard song animated clip

(43:04) China’s “Little Door Gods” first full theatrical trailer

(50:00) Fully animated “Transformers” movie is being developed

(1:01:01) Stephen and Rob talk about their 3rd podcastimation “What Was Wrong with MAN OF STEEL?”

(1:20:42) Audience Voicemail (Timothy Bergeron and Christopher Murphy)

(1:25:58) RubberOnion’s TOP 5: “Cartoons Based on R-Rated Movies”

(1:46:53) RAPID FIRE!!!!!!

Media Referenced During this Episode:

“Be Cool Scooby-Doo” clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF0GHrQyZBE

“The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show” opening titles

Animated clip from “The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show” – Bumblebeard

“Little Door Gods” first full theatrical trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAGMDOZhloY

RubberOnion’s Podcastimation 3: “What Was Wrong with MAN OF STEEL?”

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Chris Farley SHREK early story reel surfaces, Windows 10 released, and a new D&D movie announced

Stephen Brooks — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:27:29 +0000

We finally got to see what Chris Farley’s SHREK would’ve been like in an early story reel which surfaced this week. His passing in 1997 was a big shock to us so there’s a lot of discussion surrounding this topic this week. But that’s not all because there’s a “Bob the Builder” reboot with a new character design who looks… symmetrical, a new Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show coming to Netflix which is 2D (!) and the rights have been secured to make a Dungeons & Dragons movie. That last story also contains the skit this week is Stephen reading excerpts from Ice-T’s description of his experience recording the D&D audio book (starting at 1:03:24)… so enjoy that! There are technical discussions as well surrounding the new Windows 10 and a blog post which tried (and failed) to properly compare the budgets of live-action VFX to that of fully CG Animated Films. The questions this week comes from a listener wondering if we’re going to CTNx this year, which ticket we bought, and if that’s right for her. This is another 2hr podcast so let us keep you entertained while you trudge through the middle of another work-week!

Annotations:

(4:16) Stephen installed Windows 10 on his Wacom Companion 2 and has a first assessment

(13:41) Chris Farley as Shrek surfaces in early story reel

(38:11) Trailer for updated BOB THE BUILDER show

(49:21) “The New Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show” 2D animated series coming to Netflix

(57:18) Rights have been secured to make a Dungeons & Dragons film

(1:08:19) Blog post attempts to compare VFX and 3D animated film budgets

(1:18:53) RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!

(1:37:07) AUDIENCE QUESTION: “Will you be at CTNx this year? Can you give any advice for [first time attendees]? What kind of conference pass to get, or what is a must see/do for budding animators.” ~Kristen Loader

(1:45:12) SHOUTOUTS: ButzboPrud on Newgrounds and Andrew Kaiko

(1:46:07) Recommended Viewing: filmstrip-style video that explains Disney’s Hyperion renderer (and rendering in general)

Chris Farley as Shrek from early story reel before his passing

Stephen’s favorite Chris Farley SNL Sketch “Colombian Coffee Crystals”

“Bob the Builder” reboot trailer

Explainer video for Disney’s Hyperion renderer

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New Hi-Res PEANUTS images released & point-and-click game ARMIKROG gets a trailer

Stephen Brooks — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:17:12 +0000

I like to call these episodes “classic.” We’ve got news from the animation world and an interview with one of our #RubberOnionFanArt competition winners (Andrew Kaiko)! Lucasfilm surprised us with a new movie coming out in 2 months, new point-and-click game by The Neverhood creators is coming soon, and we talk a whole bunch about the PEANUTS hi-res images (this was one-day before the trailer leak!)… and we have a new segment: RAPID FIRE! Here we take the stories that you suggested which we didn’t have too much to say about and we blast through them with out little derisive or supportive comments.

Annotations:

(12:19) Lucasfilm’s surprise film STRANGE MAGIC to be released January 23rd, 2015

(23:47) Ian McKellen, Danny DeVito, and Sylvester Stallone sign on to voice ANIMAL CRACKERS

(30:38) Conversation with one of our Oct #RubberOnionFanArt competition winners, Andrew Kaiko

(51:22) DreamWorks Animation and Hasbro End Merger Talks

(57:37) Armikrog trailer

(1:14:49) Peanuts Movie Gets 5 New HD Photos

(1:31:25) New segment: RAPID FIRE!!

Andrew Kaiko’s new series “Tidbits: With Norm & Cory”

“Armikrog” trailer

RAPID FIRE stories…

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