Fan edits

captainstacy · 10-09-2010 12:11pm #1

Anyone ever watch a fan edit?
It's where someone takes a movie and recuts it.

There is a great version of Spider-Man 3
*snip*

It's really clever how he has managed to make an entertaining 2 hour movie out of it.
He removed alot of the side plots and humour and it's now a far better movie than the mess it was.

humanji · 10-09-2010 1:52pm

Don't you generally have to pirate them? So they're a bit of a no no here.

That said, I did make one myself (though I didn't distribute it!) that was Anchorman and Wake Up Ron Burgandy edited together. They were orignally all the one film, so I put them back in order, re-jigged the sound and it came out pretty decent looking. It's kind of a fun hobbym really.

I hear there's a good Phantom Menace one with Jar-Jar Binks taken out. Add some strippers and it'd be perfect.

captainstacy · 10-09-2010 3:10pm

You can only download a fan edit if you own the original on DVD/Blu-Ray

mikhail · 10-09-2010 6:05pm

captainstacy wrote: »

You can only download a fan edit if you own the original on DVD/Blu-Ray

Actually, I don't know that that's ever been tested in court. Anywhere. It's certainly a moral requirement for me, but a fan edit is generally unlicensed breach of copyright.

Dempsey · 10-09-2010 10:35pm

mikhail wrote: »

Actually, I don't know that that's ever been tested in court. Anywhere. It's certainly a moral requirement for me, but a fan edit is generally unlicensed breach of copyright.

Massive fine and told that you cant claim that owning a copy of the studio's release is good enough, I'd reckon

Studios do charge people for theatrical releases and milk directors cut separately, why wouldnt they want to do so with any other cut of the film that would be marketable. Copyright law favours whatever the owners/studios want to do, it will just take some poor sap to do a right good/extreme controversial edit to find himself up in court