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Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by amamenko » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 1:17 AM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #26

"The Owen Wilson Wow API is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Owen Wilson, or any of his subsidiaries or affiliates." That's just sad. Interjecting myself into a movie star's position, but if someone made a site like this based on my work in a fun light hearted manner like this, I'd endorse it. It's only an ignored request or a polite no response away, or a f…

Honestly, an endorsement by Owen Wilson would be amazing. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know how to reach him even if I wanted to. If anyone has any way for me to personally reach out to Owen Wilson, though, that would be dope.

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by amamenko » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 1:20 AM UTC

rocauc wrote: post #39

Wonderful - and welcomed sequel to the Chuck Norris facts API: https://api.chucknorris.io/

Yes! I obviously took a lot of the general front-end design and CSS formatting from the Chuck Norris API - that's why I credited it in the GitHub repo!

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by tomatowurst » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 1:28 AM UTC

jonahx wrote: post #35

Just out of curiosity: Does something like this fall under fair use because the clips are short? At what point would it not? Say this site became viral and was making money off ads? Would it become a copyright violation at that point?

depends on Owen's agent. think it will be a bad look if he did go after it. also tough to make money off ads these days

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by mgbmtl » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 1:33 AM UTC

jonahx wrote: post #35

Just out of curiosity: Does something like this fall under fair use because the clips are short? At what point would it not? Say this site became viral and was making money off ads? Would it become a copyright violation at that point?

I'm no expert, but one often cited source is the "neither quantitatively nor qualitatively significant" argument from the Beastie Boys lawsuit.

It could be equivalent to reaction GIFs.

Although using Owen's name in a commercial service name would probably not be a good idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by stjohnswarts » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 1:58 AM UTC

jonahx wrote: post #35

Just out of curiosity: Does something like this fall under fair use because the clips are short? At what point would it not? Say this site became viral and was making money off ads? Would it become a copyright violation at that point?

I think it falls under parody? especially since no money is being made on it.

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by stjohnswarts » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 1:58 AM UTC

tomatowurst wrote: post #43

jonahx wrote: post #35

Just out of curiosity: Does something like this fall under fair use because the clips are short? At what point would it not? Say this site became viral and was making money off ads? Would it become a copyright violation at that point?

depends on Owen's agent. think it will be a bad look if he did go after it. also tough to make money off ads these days

there were ads?

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by manesioz » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 2:22 AM UTC

This is hilarious

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by tholman » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 2:36 AM UTC

As a wow amazed individual I had made this guess the wow to the movie game a couple of years back [1] ... this would have made that work a whole lot easier than the painstakingly slow sourcing I had done :D

[1] http://wowenwilsonquiz.com/

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by amamenko » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 2:46 AM UTC

tholman wrote: post #48

As a wow amazed individual I had made this guess the wow to the movie game a couple of years back [1] ... this would have made that work a whole lot easier than the painstakingly slow sourcing I had done :D [1] http://wowenwilsonquiz.com/

I found your quiz while I was building the Wow API and I did pretty well! Can't imagine why...

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by kingcharles » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 3:33 AM UTC

recuter wrote: post #27

jerrysievert wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who needs closed captioning at this point in their life, but can still understand most things, let me tell you how bad closed captioning is. I would not rely on cc to be more than 65% accurate.

I am sorry and surprised to hear that. I would think especially now it wouldn't be too hard to auto generate a good portion. My experience is very limited but sometimes people ask me to turn on subtitles and they are usually perfectly fine, even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate?

I've done some commercial CC work recently for a studio and it is REALLY, REALLY hard work. Way harder than it looks to get it right.

Some pieces I would do would have computer-generated first pass. This would be good in places where the words were very clear and the vocabulary was regular. But TV and films can use a lot of weird domain words (see e.g. sci-fi or fantasy) that the computer can't track. And the computer has serious problems with proper nouns and names.

On top of that you have to assign each phrase to a character who might or might not be visible when they are speaking (which sucks in a whole room full of people with similar voices), and you have to time it correctly.

I got fired over an argument about comma placement.