My sister is in Chicago now and she's auditioning for grad school tomorrow and she's gonna be an OPERA SINGER because she's amazing! I am so psyched :D :D :D
MY MOM WORKS FOR THAT HOTEL COMPANY. And I own that robe because you know hotel brat perks. Just thought I'd share that because the fact you stayed there makes you basically fantastic okay bye.
poor henry. nothing is cuter then watching little kids stuggling against the very things keeping them safe. their fight for freedom is simply adorable
Today I took my SAT and the essay was on why censorship is bad for the country. So I wrote my essay on how the 2008 John Green couldn't use the poem in Looking For Alaska and how censorship hurts the middle class and helps the rich. I knew spending all last night watching these videos would pay off. Thank you John!
Hey! It's me again, your fellow YouTuber, the top comment guy. I'm currently listening to the audiobook of The Fault in Our Stars, and I would just like to let you know that you have successfully extracted several tears from my face. And for that, I thank you. Nerdfighters, can you thumbs up so he sees this? :) Thanks. DFTBA
As a poor high school kid, I can't read all of TFiOS, but I've watched you read chapter one and two several times, and I absolutely love it. Is it bad that I'm spending my time watching these videos rather and work on my own book? T.T
The most awkward thing I've experienced with "Looking for Alaska" was bringing it to school where my friend said "I've always wanted to read that!" I got super happy and said "Nerdfighters unite!" She then asked me what a nerdfighter was. I was so disappointed.
Hi john, please read my awesome idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(and others to thumbs up so john will see)
I have an idea for hanks birthday. A apples to apples nerdfighter edition!!!!!!
ask people to come up with a design for a card, then compile the designs and turn alot of the good ones into cards for the game. cards could be like famous nerdfighters and enimies of nerdfighters (so you can have some bad catagories).
Please please please take this into conseteration and excuse my spelling Dan
John, i know this is kind of late but my english teacher was at the english teachers convention and saw you there. She actually went up to you and told that she has a student that loves you. Well that would be me. Thank you so much for the signature and preview of The Fault in Our Stars!! The book is anazing!
AHHHH MY TEACHER WAS AT THAT CONFERENCE!! And he got me the two chapter copy of TFiOS. :) I hope to be going to this conference every year starting next year. :)
That answers so many of my questions on copyrighting. Thank you so much John Green :)
Though I'm not so sure the same rules apply for the new program on YouTube called AdSense.
it says in all the agreement forms that you maybe not have any media that is not yours period, even if its for 20 seconds. Sadface. Or is I recall correctly it can be under 20 seconds but not over, even if its in the background of your video; like you and your friends watching tv.
Hey Nerdfighters! I commented about receiving an appointment to West Point a few days ago -if any other Nerdfighters would like to apply to a service academy and have questions please email me and I will do my best to help you or put you in contact with someone who can (Nerdfighters helping Nerdfighters!).
I can bear the John-stare in almost all contexts except for when he's reciting poetry. I don't know. I just can't look at his face when he's intoning poetry.
John i was searching through fanfiction . net as i was looking for inspiration because i write fanfiction and i happened to notice that your books are all categories for fanfiction stories, i was wondering if you were aware of this?
So I'm curious, John: can you explain in 500 words or less how they made it possible for you to publish two audiobooks? I am greatly curious about legal contracts that satisfy everyone; they are an oddity in today's world IMO.
It's been awhile since I've kept up with youtube. Only because it is quite a bit of work. But I did miss these videos and your still my favorite Author :D
Oh hey! My communications teacher was talking about that conference earlier today.. And she started to name off authors she had met.. But she didn't say John Green.. and it made me sad. :c
@PrettyGreenGoat Publishing is something that John should make a video about but when an author publishes a work they are (usually) selling one or more of their intellectual property rights to a publisher in exchange for an advance payment and an agreed royalty fee based on sales. If John includes a Millay poem he pays a fee to the company that owns her publishing rights (HarperCollins maybe?) which in turn pays a royalty to her estate as designed in her will or as determined by the courts.
JOHN!!! I just had the most amazing idea! Your video reminded me of the current debate topic which is 'Resolved: In the United States, current income disparities threaten democratic ideals' and I think that you and Hank should debate that! Also just do live debates w/ Hank in general.
I think it all depends on what is being used that is under copyright and how many times it is used, though I do agree that it is pretty ridiculous to charge a lot for use of a couple of lines of a poem.
I think Disney manages to demonstrate everything that is wrong with copyright law. Get rid of the spaces and find #3 on this page: filmschoolrejects (the dot-com thing) slash features/6-things-the-film-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about.php/all/1
while looking for this video this morning, I accidentally typed in "clogbrothers". what can I say? living in Amsterdam for a semester will do that to you.
@grassyassmariana lol call it a typo, those 2 letters are right next to each other. How was Amsterdam? I wanted to study abroad but never really got a chance
@TheLadyWednesday Well, Alex Day did something similar when he read Twilight, but he commented on the work (extensively) which as Hank was saying in his video changes things rather a lot.
What I find disturbing is that we are protecting the "rights" of Edna St. Vincent Millay 62 years after she died. If the aim of copyright law is to guarantee that content creators can fairly profit from their work, you really have to ask yourself if that is what is happening here.
@mindbenderrx .... And how is it that we can protect the rights of someone who has been deceased for 62 years and yet we can't protect the rights of the children working in factories, the women in abusive relationships, and the men being forced to fight for corrupt causes?
Dont forget Protect IP Act... that scares the crap out of me too... This is all just going down hill, but at least it seems most of those who have joined in on protesting the bill have affected SOPA
Audiobooks are kinda irritating to me because it encourages the use of online domination. I think the internet is awesome- but there is really nothing that beats holding that fresh book in your hands. Although; I do have a kindle but still :P
I like how we're supposed to continue the conversation in the comments, and the top two comments are about his audio book and the English Teacher conference. LOL
I get this funny feeling in my belly that says that perhaps you guys oversea should try and vote some of your smart people into the senate and presidential office, instead of the naysayers and fat cats you have now.
@creativgal13 Actually I quite agree with you. Which is why I meant that their idea of this being a more peaceful way of removing protestors from the street was obviously not functional. I was actually trying to direct more people to see that YouTube video for themselves so they could witness the horror of what happened. Although I have no idea how you would have gotten it from my post I apologize if I appeared offensive.
I'm in the middle of writing a grad school paper on copyright law and how it relates to librarianship in an increasingly digital world and I came on youtube to waste some time as writer's block seized my brain..this was the first video I clicked in my subs box and I feel that it is screaming at me to get back to work on the paper due its subject matter lol.
It's weird isn't it, we spend most of our childhood battling our parents about being fed and being pushed around in buggies and strollers. Then we spend the rest of our lives wishing we'd just enjoyed that time. I'd love to take the time to sit in a man buggy and be pushed around by a responsible adult!
Right, but then how does Edna St. Vincent get paid? Does your opinion change if you are paying her instead of her estate? The problem with wanting these things to be accessible to all is that then the people who make them aren't able to support themselves.
I'm not saying that I agree with SOPA, but because money is the only way we have to repay authors for the time and energy they spend on their work (at least that keeps them fed) I'm not sure that taking that cost away is the solution.
@jaxofspades87 I think the problem here isn't that Edna St. Vincent Millay wouldn't be the one actually being paid. I think the biggest problem is actually that she's dead and has been dead for over sixty years. I don't think money is a big deal once your dead.
However I do agree that people should be paid for what they create. I'm more just pointing out that it's difficult to directly pay dead people, which is why it's usually then just paid to the estate of said dead person.
@oliverhazardous Ok. Let's say you started your own company or bought stock, wouldn't you want your family to continue receiving that money after you died? Or if you inherited a house would you rent it out to send your kid to college rather than let it sit unused? How do you distinguish creative works from other sources of income?
I agree that estate holders can be unreasonable, but I still think the issue is a complex one, and it does not become less difficult if the person is dead.
@jaxofspades87 I think you missed my point. Edna St. Vincent Millay's estate, the people who she willed all her "stuff" too (*cough*cough*family*), are the people who'd receive the money. I never said anything about estate holders being unreasonable, I just agreed that people should receive proper recognition of their creative works. Although, to be perfectly honest, I think people over thinking the situation make the issue a lot more complicated than it really is.
I work at Barnes and Noble and one of my coworkers couldn't find the last copy of Looking for Alaska anywhere today. I wanted to make the obvious pun so badly.
I knew exactly where it was because I stalk the progress of your books.
hazel is a written character. how does she have a voice? i know every character has a way of speaking but do you mean that or that she has the same pitch and treble?
I was wondering if you could briefly discuss your experience recording the book. I've always wondered what that's like. What happens if you make an absurd number of mistakes? What do you do if you're not sure how to pronounce a word? ...and etc.
I'm asking my grandmother for fifty dollars for christmas. I will then purchase the box set and preorder the book so that I can read along with my idle
I've always seen copyright infringement as when you use something created by someone else, and claim it as entirely your own. If you use someone elses creation, make money from it and don't give some money to the original creator, that counts as infringement, but not until you've made money from it. That would work for '04 John, because he hadn't made money until it was published and subsequently bought.
I would love to purchase the limited edition but recently became unemployed- I am now charity and if there's anyone out there at all that would donate me the audio book done by John I will gladly donate $40 to a charity of their choosing when I have another job. (or just give the money back to them or buy something of similar value) *cute pouty face*
Could you maybe release some samples of the audio (like the first chapter) from both recordings, so we can decide which one we'd rather listen to for the whole book?
I don't even understand what problem this bill is trying to address. Is a 13-year-old making a video for an English project really a criminal for adding music to it? No. It's the easiest and most effective free advertisement which companies should be eating up. In turn, stopping this will not make people stop downloading things illegally. This is an age-old issue. I could have bought my tv from a van in an alley. That decision will always have to be made, and the government can't make that choi
i hate copy rights espily since newer youtube more and more gets copy righted it is horribale just get rid of it it the inter net it soupse to be free and copy right should not matter
Such a fine line to draw! In a completely subjective, personal, and on the spot opinion, I think that you should be able to use half of a work before you get to worry about copyright. Cause arguing over copyright of a few lines or a few minutes or seconds of anything just seems petty and vain.
My sister is in Chicago now and she's auditioning for grad school tomorrow and she's gonna be an OPERA SINGER because she's amazing! I am so psyched :D :D :D
VenusAdela 4 days ago
JOHN! Button your button. This isn't a porn studio, this is a video blog! :P
mthsbandrocks 5 days ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Whats a book? O.o
TouchMydangerzone 5 days ago
3:11, a rare case of John Green being wrong.
dsavix4 5 days ago
MY MOM WORKS FOR THAT HOTEL COMPANY. And I own that robe because you know hotel brat perks. Just thought I'd share that because the fact you stayed there makes you basically fantastic okay bye.
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poor henry. nothing is cuter then watching little kids stuggling against the very things keeping them safe. their fight for freedom is simply adorable
justsaying211 6 days ago
my friend was at that conference!!!!!!!
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The beginning of chapter 6 contained no awkward moment. I was disappointed at this.
XsimplycomplicatedXx 1 week ago
I've just reread TFiOS and now I'm immensely disappointed that I won't be able to hear John speaking, as Hazel, about becoming a women.
ASimpleSomething 1 week ago
I wish you sold more than just the 3,000 copies of the audio book! I knew it was gonna sell out, but I was not sure how fast. :(
nerdsrsocoollike 1 week ago
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TheArrizle 1 week ago
I want to be a nerdfighter but the website asks for too much personal info.
WonderfulAkari 1 week ago
ze(brahu)man
zeman
ternvall 2 weeks ago
I just started reading Looking For Alaska! lol
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jsan4209 2 weeks ago
Today I took my SAT and the essay was on why censorship is bad for the country. So I wrote my essay on how the 2008 John Green couldn't use the poem in Looking For Alaska and how censorship hurts the middle class and helps the rich. I knew spending all last night watching these videos would pay off. Thank you John!
HeightsChick21 3 weeks ago 9
@HeightsChick21
You know you're not supposed to disclose the information about your SAT until a significant time after the essay? Namely: more than a day.
Now it's been posted all over the internet. Congrats.
one25centpeice 3 weeks ago
"You can trust me, I'm a man-bra."
tatters5 1 month ago
You have no idea how much I respect you and your brother
ThisFreeHeart 1 month ago 4
i love how americans say zebra.
JadeRhianna 1 month ago
"And you can trust me, I'm a man bra-" BEST QUOTE EVER!
FantasyMadeline 1 month ago
@FantasyMadeline Must. Be. On. T-shirt
DarkEvilWorm002 1 month ago
@DarkEvilWorm002 YES. Oh, I love Nerdfighteria...
FantasyMadeline 1 month ago
Fault in our stars rules!
It changed my life
Jazzophone22 1 month ago
Hey! It's me again, your fellow YouTuber, the top comment guy. I'm currently listening to the audiobook of The Fault in Our Stars, and I would just like to let you know that you have successfully extracted several tears from my face. And for that, I thank you. Nerdfighters, can you thumbs up so he sees this? :) Thanks. DFTBA
muffinman3000 1 month ago 7
I have one thing to say:
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AWKWARD
zizema16 1 month ago
As a poor high school kid, I can't read all of TFiOS, but I've watched you read chapter one and two several times, and I absolutely love it. Is it bad that I'm spending my time watching these videos rather and work on my own book? T.T
juliepossmusic 1 month ago
SOPA is SOPA-king stupid.
Yeah, no one ever made that joke before.
MaddhatterChannel 1 month ago
@MaddhatterChannel Maybe because it's terrible.
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@mastershakeaq Terrible? Or the best joke ever?
MaddhatterChannel 1 month ago
hanks goaty
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The most awkward thing I've experienced with "Looking for Alaska" was bringing it to school where my friend said "I've always wanted to read that!" I got super happy and said "Nerdfighters unite!" She then asked me what a nerdfighter was. I was so disappointed.
lousaysmew 1 month ago 5
Hi john, please read my awesome idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(and others to thumbs up so john will see)
I have an idea for hanks birthday. A apples to apples nerdfighter edition!!!!!!
ask people to come up with a design for a card, then compile the designs and turn alot of the good ones into cards for the game. cards could be like famous nerdfighters and enimies of nerdfighters (so you can have some bad catagories).
Please please please take this into conseteration and excuse my spelling Dan
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"Here's a sample: 'Chapter Six'"
BOOK RUINED T_T
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THERE ARE AT LEAST SIX CHAPTERS IN TFIOS. SPOIERS!
Foolishyhuman 1 month ago
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YOU WERE IN OUR PANERA AND BRILLIANCE AUDIO AND DIDN'T TELL US! I AM SAD AND DISAPPOINTED. PLEASE COME AGAIN! :)
iNatix22 1 month ago
YOU WERE IN OUR PANERA AND BRILLIANCE AUDIO AND DIDN'T TELL US! I AM SAD AND DISAPPOINTED. PLEASE COME AGAIN!
iNatix22 1 month ago
0:33 The Hilton Chicago!!! That's where LeakyCon 2012 will be!!! eeeeeep :D
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Ze-man dosen't quite have the same charm
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"Trust me, I'm a manbra"
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my sister got me the John audio book for christmas, yay amazing.
NeilSonOfNorbert 2 months ago
Zeman,
ColoredGrayscale 2 months ago
YOU WROTE LOOKING FOR ALASKA? THAT IS ON MY BOOKSHELF RIGHT NOW. WHAT?
muffinman3000 2 months ago 171
@muffinman3000 I had to think for a while before I relized that they don't really say their full names that often.
LadyJuse 2 months ago
@muffinman3000 How could you not know that it is on the cover.
gohansupersayan 1 month ago
@muffinman3000 YES. HE WROTE "LOOKING FOR ALASKA"!!
FutureAbe 1 month ago
@muffinman3000 Haha, that's exactly how I reacted when I realized that he wrote Paper Towns :)
VenusAdela 4 days ago
I am wearing the same headphones as youu.
awesome :3
Cassame 2 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
I need this even though I've already preordered the book. D:
SmokieRSWC 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
I love how fast you speak
xxdemi101 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
John, i know this is kind of late but my english teacher was at the english teachers convention and saw you there. She actually went up to you and told that she has a student that loves you. Well that would be me. Thank you so much for the signature and preview of The Fault in Our Stars!! The book is anazing!
Annabellebellewelbel 2 months ago 139
YES! i am glad your doing audio books when you said you wouldn't, thank you John! your voice is just so calming :)
emmabee11 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
"I'm a man-bra." How did he say that without laughing?
HPfreak913 2 months ago 2
@puertorrriquena Amsterdam is amazing! I'm so glad I chose to study here but sad I'm returning home soon
grassyassmariana 2 months ago
AHHHH MY TEACHER WAS AT THAT CONFERENCE!! And he got me the two chapter copy of TFiOS. :) I hope to be going to this conference every year starting next year. :)
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That answers so many of my questions on copyrighting. Thank you so much John Green :)
Though I'm not so sure the same rules apply for the new program on YouTube called AdSense.
it says in all the agreement forms that you maybe not have any media that is not yours period, even if its for 20 seconds. Sadface. Or is I recall correctly it can be under 20 seconds but not over, even if its in the background of your video; like you and your friends watching tv.
StarStealer97 2 months ago
I've been surprised by the start of many videos. This one however out did itself.
Billyit98 2 months ago
Monogram!
lookleep 2 months ago
So I've been staring at that mirror. Awesome.
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Hey, John. I think that the nerdfighters should have a hair puff competition. I have a pretty huge puff, just saying.
theguitarandstuff 2 months ago
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dejawhooify 2 months ago
I'm extremely distracted by that mirror in the back.
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Hey Nerdfighters! I commented about receiving an appointment to West Point a few days ago -if any other Nerdfighters would like to apply to a service academy and have questions please email me and I will do my best to help you or put you in contact with someone who can (Nerdfighters helping Nerdfighters!).
ThoughtsBelow 2 months ago
As im watching this I'm defacing my room with push pins and paper...
theCRAZYtwizzler 2 months ago
I just thought I'd come here and let you know that my school's library bought a copy of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. (:
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My English teacher gave me an A+ for my book report on Looking for Alaska :)
fluroza 2 months ago
1:24
skhasin 2 months ago
This arguably the most perfectly transcribed video i have ever seen on youtube.
For stupid people I'm talking about the closed captions button at the bottom of your screen
berndawg123 2 months ago
"I'm a man, I'm a zebra, I'm a MAN BRA!" :D that should be on a t-shirt. Really. :)
SkyeInNerdfighteria 2 months ago 2
I can bear the John-stare in almost all contexts except for when he's reciting poetry. I don't know. I just can't look at his face when he's intoning poetry.
lynnontherun 2 months ago
"And you can trust me; I'm a man bra!"
Only YOU could say that and not make it sound creepy =D
MegaBookWormGirl 3 months ago
My English teacher went there.
Ben1596 3 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
When I first read the description, I thought TFiOS said FiOS.
therealaknow 3 months ago
If Kate sounds so much like Hazel, how did you know what you wanted Hazel to sound like when you created the character?
Gallifrey103 3 months ago
John i was searching through fanfiction . net as i was looking for inspiration because i write fanfiction and i happened to notice that your books are all categories for fanfiction stories, i was wondering if you were aware of this?
Craigharrismusic 3 months ago
So I'm curious, John: can you explain in 500 words or less how they made it possible for you to publish two audiobooks? I am greatly curious about legal contracts that satisfy everyone; they are an oddity in today's world IMO.
jaredloveless 3 months ago
As an IB Student, copyright means plagiarism... i hate plagiarism!
Endorsun 3 months ago
It's been awhile since I've kept up with youtube. Only because it is quite a bit of work. But I did miss these videos and your still my favorite Author :D
friendlyfiasco 3 months ago
just*
B8S6 3 months ago
i think you wist found a use for the end world suck fund!
B8S6 3 months ago
Your bedroom basically is fantastic.
QuestionableRiley 3 months ago
Am I the only one who thought someone, maybe Hank, was going to come bursting through the door at 1:19?
theflyingkestrel 3 months ago
@theflyingkestrel I didn't first time around, but on review I can see how you thought so.
jaredloveless 3 months ago
whats sopa?
Vickytbob123 3 months ago
Watching this video I got extremely excited by the shot out side the Hilton Chicago because all I could think was LEAKY CON 2012!!
Maid0fAwesome 3 months ago
He is a Zeman... Semen? Well, that's not better at all!
flakemusic86 3 months ago
"I'm a man-bra" never gets old.
laurenissuchanerd 3 months ago
Which restaurant did you go to where the hostess was a Nerdfighter??? I live in Chicago, I want to meet her :)
EccentricElf23 3 months ago
Crazy is my favorite vegetable.
MaggieMcCarthy 3 months ago 3
Shiny door handles
RueDN 3 months ago
Oh hey! My communications teacher was talking about that conference earlier today.. And she started to name off authors she had met.. But she didn't say John Green.. and it made me sad. :c
Sophied4545 3 months ago
CANT. STOP. STARING. AT. MIRROR.
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"You can trust me, I'm a man-bra."
xelentoliver 3 months ago 4
@xelentoliver i think this should be on a t-shirt
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@PrettyGreenGoat Publishing is something that John should make a video about but when an author publishes a work they are (usually) selling one or more of their intellectual property rights to a publisher in exchange for an advance payment and an agreed royalty fee based on sales. If John includes a Millay poem he pays a fee to the company that owns her publishing rights (HarperCollins maybe?) which in turn pays a royalty to her estate as designed in her will or as determined by the courts.
mindbenderrx 3 months ago
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mindbenderrx 3 months ago
I love manbras... :)
randomgal1322 3 months ago
JOHN!!! I just had the most amazing idea! Your video reminded me of the current debate topic which is 'Resolved: In the United States, current income disparities threaten democratic ideals' and I think that you and Hank should debate that! Also just do live debates w/ Hank in general.
futuremustache 3 months ago
Battling the oppression of strollers. (:
just1uniqueword 3 months ago 2
@creativgal13 Professionally? No. But I do have several lawyer friends, and they are all very lovely people.
darkwarrior17 3 months ago
I think it all depends on what is being used that is under copyright and how many times it is used, though I do agree that it is pretty ridiculous to charge a lot for use of a couple of lines of a poem.
HarmonyOpus 3 months ago
WOOOOOT!!!! sorry...was excited when I saw that my husband has that same Polo shirt!! hheheheee!
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is the main character/narrator of the fault in our stars a girl?
summergreen500 3 months ago
@summergreen500 yes
kayisfish 3 months ago
I think Disney manages to demonstrate everything that is wrong with copyright law. Get rid of the spaces and find #3 on this page: filmschoolrejects (the dot-com thing) slash features/6-things-the-film-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about.php/all/1
Not really SFW. Lots of cursing.
Onihikage 3 months ago
while looking for this video this morning, I accidentally typed in "clogbrothers". what can I say? living in Amsterdam for a semester will do that to you.
grassyassmariana 3 months ago 86
@grassyassmariana I feel like there should be a segment called "clogbrothers" in which John and Hank wear wooden shoes while they vlog.
FelineFearless 3 months ago
@grassyassmariana lol call it a typo, those 2 letters are right next to each other. How was Amsterdam? I wanted to study abroad but never really got a chance
puertorrriquena 2 months ago
@grassyassmariana What did you find? =O
sk8rdman 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
I have a question -
If I were to read the entirety of Looking For Alaska or The Great Gastby in videos, say a chapter per video, would I be infringing copyright?
TheLadyWednesday 3 months ago
@TheLadyWednesday Well, Alex Day did something similar when he read Twilight, but he commented on the work (extensively) which as Hank was saying in his video changes things rather a lot.
adventuresofneroli 3 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
"so one of my big issues with copyright law is that currently-" and then the video stopped loading and my fiancee and I laughed hard at the irony :D
RockLeesBitch 3 months ago 4
I must know, what is the name of that poem?
stude444 3 months ago
What I find disturbing is that we are protecting the "rights" of Edna St. Vincent Millay 62 years after she died. If the aim of copyright law is to guarantee that content creators can fairly profit from their work, you really have to ask yourself if that is what is happening here.
mindbenderrx 3 months ago 154
@mindbenderrx I agree. Also, I am a bit confused as to what Edna St. Vincent Millay's "estate" consists of? Where exactly would that $500 go?
PrettyGreenGoat 3 months ago
@mindbenderrx .... And how is it that we can protect the rights of someone who has been deceased for 62 years and yet we can't protect the rights of the children working in factories, the women in abusive relationships, and the men being forced to fight for corrupt causes?
madisonhm94 3 months ago
@madisonhm94 so... you're comparing copyright law... to whatever point you're trying to make.
XemnasKH 3 months ago
Dont forget Protect IP Act... that scares the crap out of me too... This is all just going down hill, but at least it seems most of those who have joined in on protesting the bill have affected SOPA
TheKeleja 3 months ago
Audiobooks are kinda irritating to me because it encourages the use of online domination. I think the internet is awesome- but there is really nothing that beats holding that fresh book in your hands. Although; I do have a kindle but still :P
thundersquirrel100 3 months ago
Yay! Audiobooks! I love audiobooks! :)
LaurensMusic15 3 months ago
I like how we're supposed to continue the conversation in the comments, and the top two comments are about his audio book and the English Teacher conference. LOL
RebeccaLmcqueen 3 months ago
I get this funny feeling in my belly that says that perhaps you guys oversea should try and vote some of your smart people into the senate and presidential office, instead of the naysayers and fat cats you have now.
moviescout 3 months ago
@creativgal13 Actually I quite agree with you. Which is why I meant that their idea of this being a more peaceful way of removing protestors from the street was obviously not functional. I was actually trying to direct more people to see that YouTube video for themselves so they could witness the horror of what happened. Although I have no idea how you would have gotten it from my post I apologize if I appeared offensive.
gladrial89 3 months ago
If someone read a book and posted them reading it online, wouldn't that be illegal?
217982 3 months ago
Imma MAN-BRA
Oh wait thats something else...
xD
WazziBerry 3 months ago
I'm in the middle of writing a grad school paper on copyright law and how it relates to librarianship in an increasingly digital world and I came on youtube to waste some time as writer's block seized my brain..this was the first video I clicked in my subs box and I feel that it is screaming at me to get back to work on the paper due its subject matter lol.
BelieveInMyDaydreams 3 months ago
You're not old, Hank.
Niekpas1 3 months ago
@Niekpas1 that's John, not Hank :P
nosense82 3 months ago
@nosense82
Haha, how the hell did I miss that? Sorry... brain fart!
Niekpas1 3 months ago
i want your audiobook but i am poor :(
WROCKFREAK1 3 months ago
It's weird isn't it, we spend most of our childhood battling our parents about being fed and being pushed around in buggies and strollers. Then we spend the rest of our lives wishing we'd just enjoyed that time. I'd love to take the time to sit in a man buggy and be pushed around by a responsible adult!
fezzverbal 3 months ago 2
Man Bra? Good sir, you're a BRO
Geoshi 3 months ago
"I'm a MAN, I'm a ZEBRA,....I'm a MAN BRA....No, wait that is something else"
Kjmonkey95 3 months ago
@Kjmonkey95 I'm so glad you outlined that for us, I do not have ears.
fezzverbal 3 months ago
Hey Jon, can you reply to me? I am a writer and avid English major and I would love some lovin' ;)
ZetaSimsoy 3 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
Right, but then how does Edna St. Vincent get paid? Does your opinion change if you are paying her instead of her estate? The problem with wanting these things to be accessible to all is that then the people who make them aren't able to support themselves.
I'm not saying that I agree with SOPA, but because money is the only way we have to repay authors for the time and energy they spend on their work (at least that keeps them fed) I'm not sure that taking that cost away is the solution.
jaxofspades87 3 months ago
@jaxofspades87 I think the problem here isn't that Edna St. Vincent Millay wouldn't be the one actually being paid. I think the biggest problem is actually that she's dead and has been dead for over sixty years. I don't think money is a big deal once your dead.
However I do agree that people should be paid for what they create. I'm more just pointing out that it's difficult to directly pay dead people, which is why it's usually then just paid to the estate of said dead person.
oliverhazardous 3 months ago
@oliverhazardous Ok. Let's say you started your own company or bought stock, wouldn't you want your family to continue receiving that money after you died? Or if you inherited a house would you rent it out to send your kid to college rather than let it sit unused? How do you distinguish creative works from other sources of income?
I agree that estate holders can be unreasonable, but I still think the issue is a complex one, and it does not become less difficult if the person is dead.
jaxofspades87 3 months ago
@jaxofspades87 I think you missed my point. Edna St. Vincent Millay's estate, the people who she willed all her "stuff" too (*cough*cough*family*), are the people who'd receive the money. I never said anything about estate holders being unreasonable, I just agreed that people should receive proper recognition of their creative works. Although, to be perfectly honest, I think people over thinking the situation make the issue a lot more complicated than it really is.
oliverhazardous 3 months ago
I work at Barnes and Noble and one of my coworkers couldn't find the last copy of Looking for Alaska anywhere today. I wanted to make the obvious pun so badly.
I knew exactly where it was because I stalk the progress of your books.
Pookis11 3 months ago
Also gotta be wary of the PIPA- Protect Intellectual Property Act. which evidently is just SOPA with out the imprisonment parts.
sacamigo1 3 months ago
can we please please please please please get a "i'm a man-bra" t-shirt?
PancakeToss 3 months ago 4
@PancakeToss With Zebra stripes...!!!
TheAndx17 3 months ago
hazel is a written character. how does she have a voice? i know every character has a way of speaking but do you mean that or that she has the same pitch and treble?
leighia1 3 months ago
I was wondering if you could briefly discuss your experience recording the book. I've always wondered what that's like. What happens if you make an absurd number of mistakes? What do you do if you're not sure how to pronounce a word? ...and etc.
TheBermuda 3 months ago
Copyright law makes me angry.
RogueBlueJay 3 months ago 3
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RogueBlueJay 3 months ago
I'm asking my grandmother for fifty dollars for christmas. I will then purchase the box set and preorder the book so that I can read along with my idle
darkphantom269 3 months ago
I've always seen copyright infringement as when you use something created by someone else, and claim it as entirely your own. If you use someone elses creation, make money from it and don't give some money to the original creator, that counts as infringement, but not until you've made money from it. That would work for '04 John, because he hadn't made money until it was published and subsequently bought.
bananachip33 3 months ago
"You can trust me, I'm a manbra" x)
thephantombutterfly6 3 months ago
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Can you talk a little slowly in your videos ?! Please?!
hotvalentinac 3 months ago
@Hexinvir Botanically, yes, they are a vegetative plant organ.
Nutritionally, no, they are a carbohydrate
roxcon787 3 months ago
Is it just me or does that room resemble the one Vanessa Hudgens took nudes in..
20WillyS 3 months ago
@20WillyS think u may hav observed those photos too many times...
sextonkid101 3 months ago
Steaming slice of crazy. Yeah blame congress -_-
dessertraider91 3 months ago
Pah, if you think the Chicago traffic is bad now, wait 'til the first snowfall...
iluvsora123 3 months ago
I'm about 99.99% sure my English teacher was there..ohmygosh
dinosaur4particles 3 months ago
KATE RUDD IS SO CUTE!
NotJaredT 3 months ago
I would love to purchase the limited edition but recently became unemployed- I am now charity and if there's anyone out there at all that would donate me the audio book done by John I will gladly donate $40 to a charity of their choosing when I have another job. (or just give the money back to them or buy something of similar value) *cute pouty face*
Kahounas 3 months ago
I bought your limited edition.
Don't worry.
I'm buying the official one as well.
I will probably have a lot of copies of your books. If they are different covers, I want all of them.
I have no idea why.
It's probably because I grew up with Pokemon.
Gotta collect 'em all, y'know.
ReKrisB 3 months ago 396
@ReKrisB is it sad that i know the original 100 rap by heart?
btw nice style i enjoy the syntax of your comment
LowChoBro 3 months ago
Could you maybe release some samples of the audio (like the first chapter) from both recordings, so we can decide which one we'd rather listen to for the whole book?
supersingerevan 3 months ago 3
I don't even understand what problem this bill is trying to address. Is a 13-year-old making a video for an English project really a criminal for adding music to it? No. It's the easiest and most effective free advertisement which companies should be eating up. In turn, stopping this will not make people stop downloading things illegally. This is an age-old issue. I could have bought my tv from a van in an alley. That decision will always have to be made, and the government can't make that choi
Rawrrrx19 3 months ago 4
what camera is that at the beginning?
LAWLoROFL 3 months ago
Fuck you! I wanted to hear those excerpts! :D
underwearskids 3 months ago
SOPA = bad..... censorship ≠ freedom of speech... I approve of zebra pajamas! ^^
darktalos25 3 months ago 5
Was that Hotel Monaco? I stayed there last year! It was pretty cool.
TroySherk 3 months ago
And then i took off my manbra,
suburiboy 3 months ago 5
@suburiboy hahahaha i see what you did there
chickenface111 3 months ago
i hate copy rights espily since newer youtube more and more gets copy righted it is horribale just get rid of it it the inter net it soupse to be free and copy right should not matter
hinatahyuuga120 3 months ago
Such a fine line to draw! In a completely subjective, personal, and on the spot opinion, I think that you should be able to use half of a work before you get to worry about copyright. Cause arguing over copyright of a few lines or a few minutes or seconds of anything just seems petty and vain.
FaerieatHeart13 3 months ago