Workspace:Sita Sings the Blues

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Sita Sings the Blues is an animated film, released under a CC Attribution-Share Alike License.

http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/

Copyright and this film

From the FAQ on copyright:

Q: Can you describe “Sita’s” copyright issues? A: It’s about the songs themselves. All the research I did was on the recordings, which are not covered by federal copyright law, which is great. However, the compositions that underlie the recordings are not only controlled, they’re controlled by corporations that have no regulation on what they can charge. For me to get permission from them to use these 80-year old songs would have cost me more money than it cost to make the entire film. The songs were supposed to be in the public domain in the ’80s, but everything’s been extended by big media corporations for various reasons. It poses quite a challenge to tiny little low-budget artists like me. What they’re asking for is a really a drop in the bucket for a big studio or a big production. But it’s completely untenable for me.

Sita Interview

How Copyright Restrictions Suppress Art: An Interview With Nina Paley About "Sita Sings The Blues"