{"id":186,"date":"2019-02-06T12:54:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T12:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/ems\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2022-04-14T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:40:36","slug":"finding-videos-resolution-codecs-formats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/ems\/finding-videos-resolution-codecs-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding videos, resolution, codecs, formats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Appropriating video for art: is it Legal?<\/h1>\n

Fair use<\/strong> is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as for commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship.<\/p>\n

Appropriation for art is accepted where the use is deemed transformative.<\/p>\n

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\nLeft:\u00a0<\/em>Art Rogers,\u00a0Puppies<\/em>, 1985.\u00a0\u00a0Right:\u00a0Jeff Koons,\u00a0String of Puppies<\/em>, 1988. Polychrome on wood.<\/p>\n

Roger v Koons<\/a>\u00a0Jeff Koons lost\/settled<\/p>\n

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\nShepard Farey v AP<\/a> Fairey lost\/settled but he also fabricated evidences (very bad) and denied credit<\/p>\n

A new ruling from the U.S. Copyright Office exempted all the media\/film studies teachers and students from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe change will help college-level instructors and students use excerpts from copyrighted materials to create remix videos for a wide variety of instructional purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, yes BUT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Automated copyright algorithms won’t be able to distinguish fair use.
\nIf you get a copyright claim take down, don’t worry bring the video to class.<\/p>\n

Public Video Archives<\/h1>\n

They are public domain or royalty free repositories.
\nThey usually contain old material or digitized versions of film produced with taxpayer’s money.<\/p>\n

The Internet Archive<\/a>
\nPublic domain films, old educational, home movies, documents, Prelinger archives\u2026<\/p>\n

Open Video Project<\/a>
\nHistorical, documentary, educational<\/p>\n

The National Archives<\/a>
\nInstitutional, War footage, NASA<\/p>\n

Library of Congress<\/a>
\nVarious old and public domain, bad quality<\/p>\n

Commercial Video Archives<\/h1>\n

Either journalistic or stock footage.<\/a>\u00a0Stock footage comes watermarked unless you acquire the rights, it’s usually cheesy and used for corporate propaganda.\u00a0You should not pay to acquire video for this assignment.<\/p>\n

pond5 has a big archive of free stock clip
\nhttps:\/\/www.pond5.com\/free\/footage<\/a><\/p>\n

Downloading from YouTube<\/h1>\n

Youtube discourages download, many sites and browser plugins offer workarounds but recently YT made it much harder to acquire HD video. Introducing: Any Video Converter<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ripping and Decrypting DVDs<\/h1>\n

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Ripping:<\/strong> To copy audio or video in digital form from removable media (DVD). Technically legal only if you own the content.<\/p>\n

Decrypting:<\/strong> Circumvent the Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme of almost all commercially produced DVD-Video discs. Technically illegal by itself thanks to Clinton but ok if for fair use.<\/p>\n

How to rip DVDs with Handbrake and VLC<\/a><\/p>\n

Bit Torrent-based pirate networks<\/h1>\n

You won’t find blockbuster movies on Youtube or Archive.org
\nFor that, your best choice would be pirate networks like\u00a0Pirate bay<\/a>.
\nFirst: Do not use them on CMU networks!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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That’s because regardless of your own fair use, when you run\u00a0 Bittorrent or Transmission you are sharing copyrighted content with other people. Technically it’s not illegal to download, it’s illegal to upload (seed)<\/strong>. CMU is cybercop central and you are always tracked.<\/p>\n

At home it’s much safer. Usually the torrent websites themselves are hit with lawsuits since they are easy targets. End users have been sued for piracy but it’s very uncommon these days.<\/p>\n

Also the websites are sketchy, often fake, with misleading links taking you to scam sites so use extreme caution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

More underground and difficult to trace forms of piracy involve IRC or applications like Discord and Telegram<\/a><\/p>\n

Recording from screen<\/h1>\n

You can easily use Quicktime to record your screen. That’s how you can capture streaming TV programs or games.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately capturing audio (that is the internal computer sound) is trickier and requires an extra component. This technical stuff changes often, make sure you follow recent tutorials.<\/p>\n