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Appendix 10 Interview Record (Participant I)

Appendix 10 Interview Record

(Participant I)

Date: 12:30 p.m.-12:45 p.m., November 30, 2018
Means: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Interviewee: Participant I, a student in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Questioner: Huang Weijie

Huang: Nice to meet you! My name is Weijie Huang. I am doing my Ph.D. study on
intellectual property right in the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. My Ph.D.
thesis is about UGC (User-Generated Content) and copyright. UGC refers to content
that created by amateurs rather than professional creators, such as fanfictions, parodies,
remixes, samplings, etc. UGC is fundamentally different from traditional copyrighted
works in many aspects, such as the non-economic incentives and collaborative
authorship. This brings significant challenges to copyright law. Since you are a student
majoring in arts, Briefly, I would like to discuss the inherent conflict between the
convenience of copying and exclusiveness of copyright. Since you are from Nanyang
Academy of Fine Arts, I guess you create UGCs quite often. Could I know something
about how you create UGCs and your attitudes toward copyright law through this
interview.
Participant I: Sure. I would like to help.

Huang: What is your major? What kind of work you create in your daily life? Works of fine
art, musical works, literary works, video works or any others?
Participant I: I major in film and art design. I often make short films in my spare time.
Huang: Fantastic! Could you briefly describe how you create, such as how do you find the
source material, what kinds of software you use and how long it takes to create a work
on average?
Participant I: Source material comes from the website, previous movies or shootings by
myself according to the script. I often use Adobe Premiere, Adobe Effort and DaVinci to
help my editing.

Huang: Did you ask for permission first, or pay compensation after your use, or just use it for
free without paying the original copyright holder?
Participant I: No

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