[cc-community] Creative Commons

rob at robmyers.org rob at robmyers.org
Tue Aug 29 04:55:54 EDT 2006


Quoting Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>:

> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 18:31 -0400, Siddhartha Gandhi wrote:
>> Hi, I'm planning to release my machinima videos under Creative
>> Commons. It is not a racial statement, just a coicindental choice of
>> colors because red vs. blue is taken, and you can see our blog at
>> www.xhalofilms.blogspot.com. A preview is located there as well, and
>> the final episode 1 will be released shortly.
>
> Hi Siddhartha, but I'm not sure about the legal validity of releasing
> machinima videos. This is actually a good legal question.
>
> If one makes a machinima film in World of Warcraft where all content is
> owned by Blizzard entertainment, can one then make a machinima film and
> then sell and or license that content? I think this is not legal.

Welll. It could be fair use, depending on your jurisdiction and exactly 
what you
do with your machinima. Selling it and licensing it might go against fair use.

But I recently had an exchange with a machinima group who got permission from
Bioware to release their work NC
(http://www.robmyers.org/weblog/2006/04/30/223/), so perhaps Blizzard would
give permission to release this NC.

- Rob.



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