The Vids are a Go

[attackfish]

My appeal went through on Vimeo, and they restored all of my vids.  Reference was made to my "well-reasoned and polite message," which made me feel good about my ability to keep my panic to myself.  However, this whole experience convinced me to move my vids to Critical Commons, a site explicitly friendly to vids and vidders, where I now have an account and have uploaded all of my vids.  Unfortunately, neither Dreamwidth nor Livejournal allow embedded videos from Critical Commons, so I have to link to them in my entries instead.  All of my vid entries are now updated with the new links, I have downloaded copies from Vimeo of the three vids of mine that I lost in the move to my new computer, and I've deleted my Vimeo account.

My new Critical Commons account

Comments

[grandiose666]

Glad this had a relatively happy ending! you have all your vids and a host site, so that's nice.

The internet is still grappling with fandom, even though, as you pointed out with actual evidence in your letter, vidding is acceptable and legal. It's weird that this is an ongoing issue for so many sites.

[attackfish]

I'm just so relieved I was able to get my three lost vids back and downloaded safely to my computer.

Fandom is a strange creature in Western legal and cultural terms. I can see why we make copyright holders and internet hosting providers nervous, I do. But we've been here since before there was an internet. You'd think they would be used to us by now.