MycoRant » copyright http://mycorant.com Seen any good fungus movies lately? Sat, 19 May 2012 16:37:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Attempts to Steal “Know Your Mushrooms” Thwarted http://mycorant.com/attempts-to-steal-know-your-mushrooms-thwarted/ http://mycorant.com/attempts-to-steal-know-your-mushrooms-thwarted/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:22:55 +0000 Philip http://mycorant.com/?p=2472 The movie Know Your Mushrooms by Canadian producer Ron Mann does have some legitimately posted trailers on the internet—like at the official movie website. There are a few clips on YouTube but none them look all that “authorized” to me. There is this KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS Excerpt featuring Gary Lincoff, which is still up so apparently it is tolerated by the copyright holders. There is another one that looks like a short trailer that was filmed using a hand-held camera as it was being projected. I think it came from someone at a screening at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin. Not exactly authorized either, and not very interesting.

At least one attempt to post the whole things in parts by an idiot have been made on YouTube. I was just perusing the latest YouTube uploads on mushrooms or other fungi and came upon what looked like a video that was “part 1 of 18 in hi def” of Know Your Mushrooms. I though, huh, that’s weird. Sure enough the clip has been removed. Good on ya’ YouTube!

What is even more disappointing is that it appears that more than one attempt has been made (all unsuccessful I am happy to report) to upload this movie by different users, or perhaps the same user using different names, and they have all been deleted. One, which is still up appears to be nothing more than a sleazy ad to get you to visit what almost certainly is a pirate movie site. Boo hiss.

Know Your Mushrooms by Ron Mann

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I have never claimed anything on MycoRant was copyrighted (didn’t need to according to the law) but I hadn’t given it much thought until I asked another site operator/photographer for permission to use a photo. The response was basically yes–so long as my posts are published under a CC license. I thought that sounded reasonable, so I’m flying the creative commons image on the right side bar.

Now, I do publish brief excerpts from copyrighted work, along with a link back to the original material, which I believe falls in the realm of fair use.  I have been pretty good about seeking permission from photographers before using their work as well (work usually found on Flickr or through a Google search filtered by license).

Yes I do run ads at MycoRant. If the day ever comes that the ad revenue covers the annual cost of hosting and domain name renewal I will be pleasantly surprised! Thanks for reading!

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