Anime Music Video
As an Anime Music Video (English f anime music video, abbreviated AMV ) is called a music video that is created by fans from extracts of anime productions and to selected music. The Anime Music Videos are a subgroup of the Unofficial Music Videos ( UMVS ), which represent a modification of existing videos of any kind and not be limited to anime. They were originally presented at Anime conventions and the dissemination of AMVs was dependent on these meetings. This changed with the introduction of the Internet and sufficient network capacity. So the videos are now seen as a form of expression of the fans, where the recycling of ideas and the reinvention of content plays a central role in the imagination of young people and adults.
Due to the free design of the music video also works arise which leave an entirely new impression of an anime, since, for example, only certain scenes are selected which reflect a particular mood or situation. The mixing of videos from various sources also meant that meet these characters who would probably never have met in a work leads.
History
The first parody Anime Music Video was performed according to Fred Patten in December 1982 by James Káposztás in New Jersey. It consisted of brutal scenes of the anime Uchū Senkan Yamato, which was backed up with the title All You Need Is Love The Beatles.
In September 1993, can be the first notable appearance of a AMVs recorded. Vlad G. Pohnerts Orange Road linked the hit I Only Wanna ' Be with You ( 1993) by Samantha Fox with video clips from the anime implementation of Izumi Matsumoto's Kimagure Orange Road. Both works shared the commonality of content to accompany an intellectual boy who falls in love with a quirky girl and needs to overcome various obstacles. Although the AMV was only shown at private events and was thus known to a limited audience, it serves as an indication of the relationship between the two themes in popular culture.
The first generation of AMV creators like Otaku Vengeance, or Dark Rose Studios has produced works that dark, rebellious title availed themselves and perverted the original content of the anime. So sang about in the AMV Bitches the characters from the children's series Pokémon lip sync verses like " Bitches love me, cause They knowthat I can rock [ ... ] ".
Classification
Legal situation
Under German law, the public dissemination of Anime Music Videos for not purely private purposes or without the permission of all copyright is illegal. You fail in a number of ways of § 106 of the Copyright Act which in turn protected the definition of art relates § 2 of the Copyright Act. Thus, both the processing of the anime as well as the reproduction of music is a breach of copyright if they are made publicly available. The repeatedly found evidence that it is analogous to fansubs to handle a gray area that needs to be rejected, since there is a clear legal regulation.
So it is illegal according to German copyright law, AMVs to publish - yet it is quite rare to complaints, since the videos have a certain ambivalence. That is, they are copyright violations and advertising in one. The most frequent point of attack such videos is the music, as this is often not modified and thus represents a direct copy. Thus, AMVs, and UMVS be classified in many countries by the prevailing legislation as illegal.
Despite these limitations, Anime Music Videos are even listed on industrial exhibitions and trade fairs, or even competitions such as the AMV Iron Chef - an allusion to the TV cooking show Iron Chef - held, in which participants have to create in a specified time limit an AMV, the is then evaluated. Outside of Japan, it is assumed that the market is not large enough that management of the license holder would justify, especially since the advertiser character would predominate. But this can not be understood as protection against legal action. For example, had the largest side of the scene in 2005 AnimeMusicVideos.org remove over 2000 videos from their servers after Wind - Up Records had obtained a warning along with a cease and desist letter.