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Appendix 13 Interview Record (Participant L)

Appendix 13 Interview Record

(Participant L)

Date: 12:00 p.m.-12:20 p.m. November 31, 2018
Means: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Answerer: Participant L, 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 L: No problem.

Huang: What is your major and what kind of work do you often create in your daily life?
Works of fine art, musical works, literary works, video works or any others?
Participant L: I major in traditional Chinese painting. I often engage in meticulous figure
paintings of fine brushwork and impressionistic landscape painting.
Huang: 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 L: As for meticulous figure paintings, I will combine the figure painting with the
scene to draw a whole picture. Meticulous figure paintings usually takes a long time.
As for impressionistic landscape painting, I will first go outside and paint from life,
adding something invisible and delete something visible according to my personal
characteristics of painting. This process takes a relatively short time. And then the formal
creation can start. Well, in a broad sense, the first stage of painting from life is also a

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