Toei YouTube Blitz Shows That ‘Law of Content ID’ Can Trample Fair Use
The 634K-subscriber YouTube channel ‘Totally Not Mark’ is in peril this morning after what can be described as a copyright takedown blitz by Japan-based animation company Toei. Famous for the Dragon Ball and One Piece series, among others, Toei Animation’s products are regularly reviewed in quite remarkable depth and detail by manga fanatic Mark Fitzpatrick, whose channel has in excess of 124 million views. Whether that can continue...
Screener of Japan’s Oscar Contender “Drive My Car” Leaks Online
At the end of the year, movie industry insiders traditionally receive their screener copies, which they use to vote on the Oscars and other awards. This used to be a massive logistics operation as tens of thousands of physical discs had to be sent through the mail. That is no longer the case. Physical Screener Ban Last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this week that physical screeners will no longer be...
Film compositing on Linux with Natron
In film post-production, there’s a phase called compositing, which puts the actual footage in a camera with footage generated purely by software. What that actually means to the compositing artist depends on the movie. Sometimes there are just a few overlays, other times there’s some minor special effect like laser beams or explosions, sometimes it’s a green screen, and still other times it’s a little bit of...
Reveal your source code with Jinja2 and Git
I’m a huge fan of open source. One of the little ways I’ve supported the cause is by keeping my personal blog site open from the very beginning. I do this partly to let people see the history of changes behind each page. But I also do it because, when I started using Jekyll, I didn’t find many open source Jekyll blogs to learn from. My hope is that keeping my website open and exposing my trials and errors will save...
