Why did I use full clips in The Dakumentary and in my theory essay?

Amanda Riddell
2 hours ago
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With The Dakumentary, I was inspired by the Movie Orgy, but also thought that a lot of those sequences were worth showing in full. - The most common analytical pitfall for composers, musicologists and critics is to take a cherrypicked example and claim it as indicative of the whole gestalt. Without multiple waiata, the audience would've thought there was only one genre.

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Amanda Riddell

2 hours ago

It's fair use for educational purposes, and those can be profitable under NZ fair use law.