Comments on: Break a leg, not the law http://z-studios.com/blog/2006/06/06/break-a-leg-not-the-law/ Thoughts on Machinima and Life, and whether the two can peacefully co-exist Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: hathead http://z-studios.com/blog/2006/06/06/break-a-leg-not-the-law/#comment-66 hathead Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:35:18 +0000 http://z-studios.com/blog/2006/06/06/break-a-leg-not-the-law/#comment-66 One can certainly feel the wagons of the music industry circling. But there might more than just music on the horizon. I often make iClone facial models by using famous people faces as my original model source. Though my models get further edited, shifting away from the orginal source, it is very easy to make a likeness with this technology and I can only imagine that this type of technology will expand in use. For example, Sir Alec Guiness (not my model) http://www.allrobotradio.com/images/sir%20alec.jpg One can certainly feel the wagons of the music industry circling. But there might more than just music on the horizon.

I often make iClone facial models by using famous people faces as my original model source. Though my models get further edited, shifting away from the orginal source, it is very easy to make a likeness with this technology and I can only imagine that this type of technology will expand in use.

For example, Sir Alec Guiness (not my model)

http://www.allrobotradio.com/images/sir%20alec.jpg

]]> By: gToon http://z-studios.com/blog/2006/06/06/break-a-leg-not-the-law/#comment-65 gToon Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:23:43 +0000 http://z-studios.com/blog/2006/06/06/break-a-leg-not-the-law/#comment-65 I agree with you both. Excellent blog, Phil. The rights issue is going to become increasingly more important to machinima. As Paul pointed out in a blog last year (connected to a legal article on fair use and machinima), the only way to own your own machinima is to create completely new, custom content. And even then, it's still somewhat touchy from the legal perspective. For those of us who are above board, I think blogs like yours and energetic debate in machinima forums will make it plain that machinima filmmakers need to consider the rights issue. There will always be an "underground" group of people who don't give a rats ass for all of this fair use and will do what they want to do. I sympathize, but can't be a part of that group. I agree with you both. Excellent blog, Phil. The rights issue is going to become increasingly more important to machinima. As Paul pointed out in a blog last year (connected to a legal article on fair use and machinima), the only way to own your own machinima is to create completely new, custom content. And even then, it’s still somewhat touchy from the legal perspective. For those of us who are above board, I think blogs like yours and energetic debate in machinima forums will make it plain that machinima filmmakers need to consider the rights issue. There will always be an “underground” group of people who don’t give a rats ass for all of this fair use and will do what they want to do. I sympathize, but can’t be a part of that group.

]]> By: todnyc28 http://z-studios.com/blog/2006/06/06/break-a-leg-not-the-law/#comment-64 todnyc28 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:42:02 +0000 http://z-studios.com/blog/2006/06/06/break-a-leg-not-the-law/#comment-64 Each filmmaker enters the fray with such little know how, and less know of. I remember dropping the first track into a movie with not the slightest care. As you become a more serious 'artist' you begin to consider the rights of other artists. You learn to respect copyrights. But, there will always retain a certain liberty to this most populist form of filmmaking. The real mud, I think, will hit the hosting sites, M.com, for there distribution of such ripped and burned material. Each filmmaker enters the fray with such little know how, and less know of. I remember dropping the first track into a movie with not the slightest care. As you become a more serious ‘artist’ you begin to consider the rights of other artists. You learn to respect copyrights. But, there will always retain a certain liberty to this most populist form of filmmaking. The real mud, I think, will hit the hosting sites, M.com, for there distribution of such ripped and burned material.

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