I received a call today from the president of the association in Canada in charge of reproductive rights on music. The final track on the documentary – “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, was still under copyright. I obtained the song from a public domain database, but as I was informed, things aren’t so simple. I thank the person very much for informing me of this, esp. in the kind fashion he did.
In any case I’m pulling down all links to the documentary from my site until the issue is resolved. I’ve also deleted the video from my uploads section on Google; and I’m pulling all the links I’ve given to the communities I discussed it with. Finally, I’m sending a letter to ThePirateBay asking that they take down the torrent.
This is not the end of the documentary. All that that means is that I have to remove the final track, which is not a problem. However, since it takes about 24 hours of supervised work/rendering to apply such changes, I’ll implement these with the final rendition of the film, due out in a week. Until then, I’ll make sure to remove all references to the infringing copy.
I offer my sincerest apologies to all those that were affected.
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4 responses to “Taking down Piracy Doc.”
Oh thank heavens, for a minute there I thought you were going to say you’d thrown in the towel altogether.
— Mr. DOS
Dear Julien,
I have seen your movie and I really like it. I did send you 20$ complimentary, so I consider this to my way of paying for viewing properties.
I had to get it because this issue concerns and interests me a lot. I have to say this: Since I love the subject I have to help you improve sound and graphics. This documentary follows the season were are in. Everybody wants documentaries these days. It is the hot thing. And you have a lot of potential with this film to really get it out there. But sound and graphics are holding you back.
The sound part is concerned with inadequate sound in some scenes, not being able to clearly hear people properly, sound garbled and so on and so forth. In other scenes you have the people talking, again low, and the background music actually drowns out the speech when the music peaks.
Another sound issue is the choice of music. Obviously you did not have the funds for licencing music, which is also obvious from the above post. But man, that piano really bothers me and ruins my concentration. Sorry. Hopefully you mean to raise money with this edition and remake some parts of the picture? I hope so, because I think it is very informative and people need to know in order to discuss this topic at home over dinner or what ever.
The third issue is not so much the graphics, they are fine, it is the lack of them. Some of the figures that these music-industry guys throw around are hard to follow in order to get their final argument and graphics depicting some of the more hard-core statistics in graphs would be a great help to bridge some of this rather techy stuff.
The People:
Graham Hendersen: Perfect, priceless. He almost have me convinced.
Michael Geist: To the point, concice, easy to understand, handles complex issues to a point where most people can understand him.
Barry Sookman: I skipped him completly due to inaudioability.
Ian Kerr: He is really good, but he could simplify his stuff more. He makes it hard for the average non-tech guy to follow. Even I find myself hard pressed to keep up at times. And he talks a lot 😀 But he is the one that really need graphics.
David Fewer: to the point, concice. Sound a bit distorted and loud.
“Kristoff”: The first part with him is good and interesting, but he uses a few terms like TS, CAM, .avi, DivX etc. All technologies but they are gibberish to most people (I suppose you aim for the non-pirate market with this picture, I know all this stuff already) and you might want to either explain a bit more with graphics or a pause, or get rid of them.
John Buckman: Great idea he had, smart guy, way to go. He is clear, concise and to the point.
Catheryne Saxberg: Easy, good, sort of a respite intellectually:)
Cory Ferguson: Very bad sound quality.
Pat Marshall: Fine, all good.
I love the flick, but you expect a lot from your viewers. Think back on the amount of abbreviations you introduce. (DMCA, DRM, TPM, CRIA, RIAA, the above mentioned and probably more.) My point is that the first three take a long time to get introduced and they are basically the interesting points of the movie/industry today. More focus on these three.
The movie is interesting and so is the overall theme because it touches upon: Ideology, in the liberal sense where I am free to do and roam with my things as I please. Police- or political-control a strong government with an ironfist, e.g. RIAA or CRIA. Our future in the sense that what we decide today affects tomorrow, but tomorrow could prove be a very long time. And peoples unawareness of this issue could create a problem.(I am only glad the government of Canada has yet to figure out what is going on, in comparison to the US one that think they know it all).
Congratulations on a good and relevant documentary!
Simon Kaastrup-Olsen, Denmark(yes the country of Mohammed Cartoons.)
And now go get it listed on http://www.IMDB.com
Wow. Lots of advice, and I agree with pretty much all of it. Sound is the biggest component I’m reworking for the final version (Barry Sookman sounds alot clearer now!)
I’ll use the donation money to procure royalty free music, and spice up the soundtrack without it being too distracting. I know though that the volume with music/interviews is a big issue, and also working to fix that.
Lack of graphics, introduced terms that general audiences might be unaware of… All excellent points. Thank you 🙂
hi..
now its the 4th time, i take a look, if ure doku is online. ive heard and read about a lot. a lot of positive meanings. im just one, and to write something after this honestly criticism, feels mostly redundantly. but perhaps.. i could imagine, its quite stimulus, to see, there are people waiting on u and ure doku.
hopeful
ben