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Goldeneye
Lorien
Aug 28 2015, 3:18pm
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Hobbit trilogy fan editor gets nuked off the internet thanks to Reddit
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I'm just reposting this from Reddit but thought it would be worth discussing here.
A few days ago someone posted a link in /r/videos about a Hobbit Trilogy Fan Edit on Vimeo. It gets over thousand upvotes and makes the front page. The editor appears on the thread and does a mini-AMA, a couple of people raise concerns over the copyright issues, which the editor dismiss over fair-use. Within hours the user is shadowbanned and in the next hours, everything from his Vimeo to Youtube and Tumblr accounts are all nuked off the internet.
The project and its editor in question is not me, but David Killstein and "There and Back Again." As far as I know, this is the first time that a Hobbit fan editors has been wiped off the internet. It should be very interesting to see how WB handles the inevitable explosion of fan edits that will be released by the end of the year.
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Lorien
Aug 28 2015, 3:51pm
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However, one way that helps curb that particular factor (impact upon market value of original work) is by making sure that whoever chooses to view/download a fan edit must own the original film(s). Fanedit.org is very explicit about this with their users, and even though it isn't really enforceable they do a pretty good job of pushing the honor system.
I would venture to guess that anyone interested in seeing a fan edit of The Hobbit will have at least seen all the films once, and may in fact own them too. But again, the honor system is difficult to enforce on the internet.
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