Nina Paley

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1. 1968 age 0

   Born

2. 2008 age 40

   CreditSita Sings the Bluesproduction designer

   CreditSita Sings the Bluesdirector

   CreditSita Sings the Bluesfilm editor

   CreditSita Sings the Bluesproducer

   CreditSita Sings the Bluesscreenwriter

3. 2014 age 46

   CreditThe Prophetdirector

• RARoger Allers1 title
• LNLiam Neeson1 title
• JKJohn Krasinski1 title
• AMAlfred Molina1 title
• QWQuvenzhané Wallis1 title
• GYGabriel Yared1 title
• SHSalma Hayek1 title
• FLFrank Langella1 title
• DWDouglas Wood1 title
• JSJoann Sfar1 title

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• Yes, I know bad bad people can also use the .fla files for dastardly deeds (the dreaded hypothetical “Nazi Porn Version” that always comes up at Q&A’s). Bad bad people can use our shared Language and Technology for evil too, but I’m not going to constipate culture out of fear of imaginary worst-case scenarios. I’m confident much more good will come from this than bad, and that’s motivation enough for me. It’s Free Culture, baby. If programmers can tinker with the Free Software’s source code, artists can tinker with Sita Sings the Blues‘ source files.

  Nina Paley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Copying is not theft <br /> Stealing a thing leaves one less left <br /> Copying it makes one thing more <br /> That's what copying's for. <br /> Copying isn't theft <br /> If I copy yours, you have it too <br /> One for me and one for you <br /> That's what copies can do. <br /> If I steal your bicycle, <br /> You have to take the bus <br /> But if I just copy it, <br /> There's one for each of us! <br /> Making more of a thing <br /> That is what we call copying <br /> Sharing ideas with everyone <br /> That's why copying... <br /> ...Is fun!

  Nina Paley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The corporations that hold these copyrights are media companies that also control most of the new media that comes out. Estimates vary, but it's said that 98 percent of all culture is unavailable right now because of copyrights. So the reason they hold the copyrights isn't because they want to get paid, it's because they don't want all the old stuff competing with the media stream that they control now.

  Nina Paley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• ♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy & share.

  Nina Paley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You don't deserve to be paid because you choose to do something that somebody else may, or may not, want. If you want to be paid for your work, you negotiate that beforehand. Otherwise I would just be walking around talking. Here I am talking now. "You owe me money", right? … It's up to you whether or not you want to do work with no contract. I think artists do need to do work with no contract, because what we're motivated by is not money. We're motivated by a need to express ourselves and to get our ideas out. That's the motivation. It turns out that when people like it they frequently will support you if you give them a means, but this is not a contract.

  Nina Paley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In ten years I think the [copyright] laws are going to be worse and I also think they are going to be less relevant. I mean, already the difference between the laws and people's behaviour, It's like they're different planets. I'm not hopeful for the laws changing. A lot of other people are, so maybe we will have meaningful copyright reform. I doubt it. I don't think it matters. I think the tools are available for people to create and share culture and they're going to do that and they might be doing it illegaly and at a certain point it's going to be more than the system can handle. I will say that if the power structure as it exists wants to continue they're going to have to reform because it's not sustainable. Copyright law as it is, it's just completely out of touch with human behaviour.

  Nina Paley, CC BY-SA 4.0