tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post8166082920610509782..comments2024-01-16T22:15:10.766-08:00Comments on ROBOPLASTIC APOCALYPSE: MEGAvoltronian CONversations!Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-38309677758465417382011-04-16T13:02:23.928-07:002011-04-16T13:02:23.928-07:00I think you hit the nail on the head with respect ...I think you hit the nail on the head with respect to FunPub being out of touch. Different generation running things. But there are great podcasts at TFCon, and I think it helps sell tickets. Anyway. Good that you have the audio files though. Someday I'll get you to make me a copy of the Flint Dille panel.fairplaythingshttp://fairplaythings.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-39048461036421284582011-04-16T10:18:49.901-07:002011-04-16T10:18:49.901-07:00[continued from previous comment]
If people can s...[continued from previous comment]<br /><br />If people can stay at home and watch Botcon panels on YouTube would they really not go? I don't think so and mostly because amateur recordings are of poor quality. I see a charm to that poor quality, though. They are that viral kind of word of mouth advertising at the ground roots level. But how do you keep just the amateur YouTubers doing their thing? I say modify the policy to let anyone record whatever they want but require anyone with a tripod to apply for a press pass. This ensures the amateur YouTubers continue. Serious media is less likely to post entire panels anyways.<br /><br />Speaking of serious reporters, for FunPub to not allow non-traditional media like bloggers or podcasters access to their guests is also backwards. Getting my proposed interview with Bob Prupis shot down was why I didn't go to JoeCon this year. All these anti-blogger/podcaster policies may change in a couple of years once they realize they're preventing some truly positive, fan driven publicity and guest interaction from being done at their shows but I'm not going to wait. As with a lot of BotCon issues over the last few years, I chalk it up to FunPub being out of touch with convention culture, technology and the new media. In the meantime all we're going to get are the crappy bootleg quality illegal YouTube video snippets and <a href="http://youbentmywookie.com/features/botcon-2010-not-much-more-than-meets-the-eye-9344" rel="nofollow">Tom Croom style coverage</a> under the current system.<br /><br />It would be nice to do podcast shows that incorporate segments from the BotCon panels but that's just not legal under FunPub. Listening to <a href="http://supermanfanpodcast.mypodcast.com/201103_archive.html" rel="nofollow">SupermanFan's audio recordings</a> of the MegaCon comic creator panels makes me wish I could do something like that for BotCon, but with my own commentary on what Budiansky or the G1 writers or whoever said. Hell, Brian Kilby's audio of the voice actor panel at Botcon 2001 was one of my favorite Radio Free Cybertrons ever! Things are different now under the new management so podcasts like that just can't exist for Botcon in the current era. It's their policy and I respect it (insofar as I'll never do any BotCon podcast coverage despite having made "illegal" audio recordings of some of the panels from the past few years).Evil King Macrocranioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-39699336427057375502011-04-16T10:15:30.572-07:002011-04-16T10:15:30.572-07:00Initially FunPub's rule regarding photography ...Initially FunPub's rule regarding photography or other recording of panels was that just the Hasbro panel was prohibited from being videotaped, then by 2008 that grew into no panel could be videotaped. Ever since 2009 both audio and video recording were outlawed. You'd have to ask Brian Savage why no audio or video recording is allowed at any Botcon panels for the official explanation. Second hand I can tell you we were told at the Orci/Kurtzman panel in '09 that it's because the guests are representatives of different agencies or corporations and any reproduction of their appearances would violate their (the artists and companies they represent) rights. I don't know how true that is from a legal perspective but that's what I heard. Yet <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NzwZupJ9UI" rel="nofollow">Stan Lee's panel at last month's MegaCon</a> is up for people to watch and I don't see that being pulled down for artist infringement.<br /><br />What irks me is that no recording of any kind is now the across the board policy for every BotCon panel no matter who or what the panel's about. I can understand why video or photos of the Hasbro panels are prohibited but the voice actor and cartoon writer stuff? No recording of any kind at all? In this age of YouTube and podcasting I think that's a bit archaic. The policy didn't stop fans from posting crappy video of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vVNAudUTNY" rel="nofollow">Weird Al in '09</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=botcon+panel" rel="nofollow">any other panel for that matter</a>. If these YouTube videos of Weird Al and Peter Cullen aren't in direct violation of some sort of artists' performance rights law then why haven't they been taken down? I think it's because the BotCon recording policy is a sham and they real reason they don't want recordings is they fear attendance will be negatively impacted somehow by amateur broadcasting of their events.<br /><br />[continued in next comment]Evil King Macrocranioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-12973982728985747322011-04-15T16:57:48.718-07:002011-04-15T16:57:48.718-07:00Agreed. A shame about Dennis O'Neil.
Your pod...Agreed. A shame about Dennis O'Neil.<br /><br />Your podcast is so seemless between where you nip away and return that, if you didn't say you'd done so, I'd never even notice you'd left.<br /><br />So what is the story with the Botcon audio clips? Why do you fear the lord of FunPub? :)fairplaythingshttp://fairplaythings.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-34368514816100076072011-04-12T11:40:42.598-07:002011-04-12T11:40:42.598-07:00Well we don't know the whole story so we can&#...Well we don't know the whole story so we can't really judge the guy. I know he at least showed up for the panel he was scheduled to do. But it was a big disappointment to not get to even briefly talk to him off the record about the early days of Transformers.Evil King Macrocranioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-63316684010488496902011-04-06T08:30:06.380-07:002011-04-06T08:30:06.380-07:00Fantastic interviews. However, you should have put...Fantastic interviews. However, you should have put in a special no thank you to Mr. O'Neil.<br /><br />WTF, man?? One day for one hour?? Really??? XDagentmorrisnoreply@blogger.com