Saturday, January 21, 2012

Chinese Anime/Disney-Lookalike Videos: The Story Behind Them [via AnimeNewsNetwork]

2009 service turns kids into stars of CG videos, claims "no copyright concerns" over Gundam, Disney images. 
*So thats what this video was about...*

The Chinese service Xu You Ji lets parents pay to have their children turned into 3D models and animated in their own CG action-adventure shorts. The children also dub their own voices into the work. The custom video service debuted in 2009, but recently garnered attention because of one of its videos, featuring Gundam models and other anime elements, was posted online this week.
The company's FAQ page claims the following regarding copyrights:
We design and develop our own animation with their own copyrights. They do contain elements of popular titles, but all are adapted ourselves so there is no copyright concerns.
The service costs about 1,738 yuan (about US$275) to make a custom short.
The company's YouTube channel features a demonstration video and two sample shorts, with one short containing footage directly from Disney and Pixar's Finding Nemo film and a cover of a song from Disney's The Little Mermaid film (at the 3:10 mark):
Via AnimeNewsNetwork

28 comments:

  1. "We design and develop our own animation with their own copyrights. They do contain elements of popular titles, but all are adapted ourselves so there is no copyright concerns."

    Damn....people really can lie like a dog when their life depends on it

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  2. *Ultra Reverse Laser Facepalm*

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  3. Made in China. Expect plagiarism.

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  4. It's China. China doesn't given half a fuck about plagiarism or what the rest of the world thinks about it.

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  5. Well, that made no sense at all...

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  6. so pretty much, " we use them differently so there ours" Oo what is this company stupid or something XD

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  7. I remembered bandai was able to sue chinese company in the past.
    what makes this one out of bandai reach ?

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  8. If this was made over here, they would've been locked up a long time ago...

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  9. I bet their videos explodes like everything else they made.

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  10. They're trying to pass this off as 'fair use' when it is not. I don't know if China has a fair-use law but in the US it would not fly.

    http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
    "Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research."

    I presume Japan has similar criteria.

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  11. SOOOO COOOOL!
    And they even have the guts to say that is their ideas.
    Way to go!
    CHINA! CHINA! CHINA!

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  12. Just stop the goddamn crap and don't embarrassed themselves or chinese. Can't they come up something from their own. disney? terminator? gundam? all together and call it as their own idea? OMG......

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  13. flip out more. these giant companies they're taking their stuff from can feel your sympathy.

    seriously, who cares? also this is one group of people. so what if they're in china?

    remember 9:11? that was some people in america i hear. AMERICA AMERICA AMERICA!

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  14. VAMOS ARRIBA, CHINA!

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