[FC-discuss] vids: remix from the '70s; transformativeworks.org

[Peter Olson]

"Vids are fan-made music videos that involve the re-cutting and remixing
  of footage from television shows or films. The history of vidding far
  predates YouTube (2003) and contemporary "remix" culture; rather,
  vidding dates from the 1970s, and is one of the many arts to have
  emerged from Star Trek and subsequent media fandoms. Moreover, vidding
  is particularly notable as a form of filmmaking primarily practiced by
  women, perhaps because women dominate media fandom generally, or perhaps
  because telling stories with extant footage has been one way to surmount
  the bar which hinders women's entry into the expensive and
  male-dominated film world.

"The Vidding History project of the OTW is committed to documenting and
  celebrating the 35 year history of fan vidding. We believe that
  noncommercial works, like vids, that make creative use of existing
  copyrighted material are transformative, and that transformative works
  are legitimate under US copyright law."

http://transformativeworks.org/projects/vidding-history

OTW: http://transformativeworks.org

"Transformative Works and Cultures is a peer-reviewed academic journal
  that seeks to promote scholarship on fanworks and practices. The first
  issue appeared on September 15, 2008.

"TWC is a Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for
  Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons
  Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. TWC has been submitted
  for indexing in all major academic databases, open access directories,
  and services such as Google Scholar."

http://transformativeworks.org/projects/twc

peter