Boy in Red Dress

[andyg0404]

Hi,

Well, this is very interesting.

8 year old boy wearing make-up and red dress - Camera moves in

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/year-old-boy-wearing-make-up-and-red-dress-camera-moves-stock-footage/501996346

Click on view all below the video.

Andy G

[Betty]

Wow. $575 for a license for a 30 seconds clip of a boy in a dress? GettyImages is taking this greed thing to a whole new level. I wonder if they or their client actually own the video, or if it's just another item they found on the internet, & claimed for themselves.

I've caught them selling pix for outrageous amounts of money that they didn't own before where they just copied them off a site, & then put them for sale them as their own.

[Betty]

I see there's 32, 10-44 second clips of that kid dressing up there, selling for $575 each. That's over $18,000 for all of them with no sound. In the ones where he's putting on makeup, he also paints a beard on himself. So he's probably not a CD, but was coached for the video. The sound was left off, probably so you don't hear the coaching/directing. The camera remains steady & the kid remains centered in the video, so the camera was on a tripod in an attempt to be professional about it. This was not a sibling or parent filming it with their phone or tablet.

Still researching who actually owns the copyright to it. If you buy the complete set, GettyImages will sell them dicounted for $475 per clip - - that's over $15,000 for the complete 360p set. How much will you donate to see it all here, if I found out they just copied it from somewhere else & don't actually own them?

[Betty]

OK, I re-assembled the dozens or 5-30 second video clips into a reasonable order to make a full 10 minute video of it. I couldn't find out for sure who owns the original full video before it was chopped up into small $575 pieces a few seconds long. So to be safe, I've done some cropping, editing, enhancing, modifications to it, & added sound so I can claim to play it under "fair use" laws as a demo of my VJ/DJ mixing skills/software & as a non-profit archiver.

There's only 3 musical pieces in the video, & within a minute, I get bogus fake copyright claims on all 3 songs. 2 of the songs were recorded in 1921. According to the Library of Congress & Archive.org (yep the same people that carry Betty's archives), they are Public Domain songs, have no copyrights on them, & they have proof on record. The third song is a 1902 piano player roll playing on a rebuilt player piano from the 1920s. It is also Public Domain, & has no copyrights.

I'm still in a copyright dispute over 2 songs in the Little House videos (there were 9 claims, but I won 7 of them). Ironically they are both Player piano music rolls from 1902 playing on that same 1920s piano. These 2 claims aren't coming from a bogus copyright company this time either. The dispute is with Time Warner Music! I'm not disputing that they have released records that were recordings of these rolls playing on player pianos. Those rolls & pianos to play them were heavily mass produced in the days before electronic phonographs, & decent sounding loud speakers. My dispute is that just because they've recorded pianos playing those rolls does not give them exclusive rights to the rolls, pianos that played them, & other recordings people made of them.

Once again, the Library of Congress, & Archives.org who also carry recordings of these as Public Domain, also agrees with my side. But Warner Music isn't backing off yet. I wish attorneys were free. What a pain in the ass these guys are!

Anywho, here's the special video I just put together. The scene of the red dress is in the last few minutes of the video.

Enjoy!


http://unclegadget.com/media/du360p12f.mp4

This is streamed directly from our servers. An HTML5 enabled browser or flash is required to play it. It's only 16mb for 10 minutes of video thanks the the miracles of Betty's very exclusive homemade compression (yep I invented this method of compression), so won't dent your data limits/caps. It will even stream in real time on a slow dialup connection at 27kbs (0.027mbs)... Impossible until just this week! The YouTube version somehow turned it into a 100mb file so I removed it from them. For 100mb, I can stream an hour of video like this.

[andyg0404]

Thanks Betty, very nicely done.

Andy G.

[Betty]

Thanks. Somehow YouTube turned the 10 minute 16mb video & turned it into a 100mb file. I can stream an hour of video with 100mb. Almost half our visitors are on portable devices (especially our younger crowd) with data limits/caps, or pay by the GB, others in remote or rural locations (because Betty's is world wide), just don't have fast connections or a lot of bandwidth available.

I've been working a lot with internet compression over the years, & more recently experimenting & making my own media compression. This most recent video is a new breakthrough for me in video compression, & a Betty's exclusive. It's not HDTV, but at 16mb for 10 minutes of video it looks pretty good. That equals about an hour of video in under a 100mb size, that can be streamed on a slow 27kbs (0.027mbs) old dial-up connection.

It's taken me months of work to get a video this watchable in such a small file size. Yes, it's comfortable to watch in full screen on my 32" TV! Better than VHS quality, but not as good as modern DVD quality.

For this first one, under my new compression techniques, it took almost all day to piece the clips together, insert the music, & go through 8 stages of processing to get it down to 16mb. I actually made a few versions of the same one that were only 7-9mb in size too, but they weren't that pretty... like very poor VHS tape. The 360p video at only a 27kbs stream is nice though.

But now that I got it done nice once, it should go quicker & easier next time.

Let me know if you'd like to see more of this type of thing or perhaps, a regular movie night where we sponsor movies, or rare TV shows. I'd have to pay rights to stream movies, but the older ones don't cost much, & just like at the cinema, or at a TV station, the price depends on the audience. If we're only getting only a couple dozen watching the movie, the rights don't cost much to stream an older movie in a low bandwidth quality. If I'm not charging to show them, & not actually distributing them, the rights to run them are very cheap or sometimes free. Indeed, many of the titles I have, for a private audience of 30 or less people, I may be able to run them for free if I'm not charging, & they're ad-free.

But we would need donations to make it work.

To keep the rights cost down, it would be on a private section here that only members could see.

For movie night though, it would mostly be from my vast Sci-Fi collection, but I would probably run lots of stuff that had pretty outfits in them too.

[Betty]

Let's see if this experiment works. Here's a higher quality version from one of my free google drives. Will it play or download for you?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B63wYeQj4LdjMHRZWGo4TWFzRzA/view?usp=sharing

[andyg0404]

Good morning,

This opened right up in full screen and played for me. High quality too. As to movie night, it's not for me as I currently don't watch any television aside from the weather and I haven't been to the movies on a regular basis in 20 years. That will change when I retire but for now I just don't have the time, or perhaps I should say that I prefer to spend my time in different ways. I also fear that you would be laying out money that you can't afford without a very good chance of being reimbursed.

Andy G.