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[Archive for May, 2008]

a look at machinima legal from a “professional”

Posted by fiezi

Even though quotes like “machinima is the use of a pre-rendered engine to make a film” are not exactly putting an end to the discussion about wording and phrasing, the rest of this Joystiq article is an interesting read about the legal implications of our favorite topic.
I’ll try to keep this as generic as possible. [...]

no take-down but money making

Posted by Michael

It has been around in the blogosphere (I picked it up at Shattered Keyboard):
Rik over at his blog posted that his video done in SL but using copyright music got into trouble:
Dear YouTube Member:
UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video Elfay Pinkdot’s Jazz Party in Second Life. This claim was made [...]

Live blogging from fMX ‘08

Posted by Michael

fMX is an international conference/ festival on “animation, effects, games and digital media” currently under way at the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart, GER. A look at this description makes it clear that someone interested in machinima should have a look … and so I did.

There are some talks on Machinima on the festival (e.g. [...]