H.I. No. 2: Copyright Not Intended
| "Copyright Not Intended" | |
|---|---|
| Hello Internet episode | |
| Episode no. | 2 |
| Presented by | CGPGrey, Brady Haran |
| Original release date | February 7, 2014 |
| Running time | 0:58:38 |
Grey & Brady talk about copyright.
Show Notes
- Suggest future topics for H.I.
- Why does The Economist call itself a newspaper?
- CGP Grey copyright video
- Everything is a Remix
- TextExpander
- Brady's video inside the Bank of England's Gold Bullion Vault
- Clueless
- BBC's Sherlock
- John Siracusa
- Star Wars Despecialized Edition
- The People Vs. George Lucas
- The Zapruder film
- Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture
Summary
0:00:00: Grey discusses his mistake of calling the Economist a magazine instead of a newspaper in the previous episode, as well the history behind why the Economist is called a newspaper.
0:02:56: Audible.com ad by Grey recommending Steven King's "On Writing".
0:05:26: They discuss Grey's copyright video, and Brady is not sure whether or not creators should be allowed to add on to stories that have already been made.
0:10:20: Grey discusses patents, and how inventions can only be created with the help of previous technology. He says that if patents lasted as long as copyright, technology would progress much slower.
0:15:32: Grey compares copyright to patents, saying that just as inventors use previous technology to create new technology, creators take elements from other stories to create new stories.
0:17:10: Grey argues that because no works are completely original, creators must eventually give their works to society, just as inventors can only keep patents to their technology for twenty years.
0:19:04: Grey says that if there were no copyright, then less large scale works would be created, as creators would not be able to protect the distribution of their creations. He says both copyright being too long and it not existing altogether would have detrimental effects on the rate of content creation.
0:22:24: Brady asks Grey why he decided to make his copyright video. Grey says that part of the reason he made it was himself being unable to use images that were nearly a century old, due to them still being under copyright protection.
0:23:54: They discuss their perspectives on copyright as creators. Grey discusses his frustrations with people reuploading his content, who often use the phrase "Copyright not intended" to admit that they have not made what they uploaded. He talks about how he handles reuploads of his content, and how his reaction to reuploads has changed over time.
0:30:32: Brady says that he sometimes tries to get videos of his uploaded on other channels taken down, however that it gets tedious as he has uploaded thousands of videos. He discusses how people claim that they are using his content under fair use to reupload it, and how under most cases his content is not used under fair use.
0:34:14: Grey discusses the meaning of fair use in the United States, and how using content commercially and whether or not the new content competes with the borrowed content determines whether or not content is being used under fair use.
0:37:15: They discusses how newspapers use content from YouTube without the permission of creators and put it into their own videos players to commercially exploit it.
0:40:23: Brady discusses how a newspaper made a picture gallery of one of his videos on their website after he refused to let them reupload his video in their own player instead of the YouTube player.
0:41:32: Grey discusses how letting copyright expire allows creators to make new versions of previous works, set in new settings with different characters and added themes. He discusses how letting people recreate previous works can allow even greater works to be created, and can inspire others to create their own, seperate works.
0:45:44: Brady argues that allowing people to use previous works in their own allows creators to exploit the fame of previous works to gain a wider audience for their own works. They discuss how people prefer books and movies that are already famous to those that are not.
0:47:22: Grey argues that it is worth having some bad sequels or recreations of previous works in order to have good ones.
0:49:07: Grey says that the benefit of having a sixty year copyright would be the ability for people alive today to be able to watch a remade version of the original Star Wars movies. He also discusses how the control over the distribution of a movie allows George Lucas to disallow the viewing of the original versions of the Star Wars movies.
0:51:27: Brady discusses how the Star Wars prequels have tainted the original Star Wars movies, while Grey discusses how some people cannot distinguish between the prequels and the originals.
0:52:41: Grey discusses how allowing creators of content a nearly infinite copyright timeframe can cause the original versions of works to disappear or become distorted. He talks about the Star Wars despecialized editions, which are versions of the original Star Wars movies that have been edited to remove things added in the George Lucas Special editions.
0:54:36: Brady mentions the film "The People Vs. George Lucas", and mentions the copyright issues behind "The Zapruder film". He also asks Grey what he would do differently if he were to remake his copyright video. Grey says that he is not sure whether or not he could fully explain his thoughts about copyright in a video.
0:57:05: Grey discusses a TED Talk which talked about the fact that there is no copyright on fasion in the United States. Grey agrees with the point made in the video that no copyright is good for the fasion world, however believes that copyright is necessary for other fields of creativity.
