metavids and fair use
I had a thought today. Don't be too alarmed.
While I believe that almost all vids really should count under fair use, since they tend to be transformative by nature (though there still are a fair amount out there that really aren't), this may work as a good analogy to get the point across.
I wrote a paper shortly after Razor came out about how the producers of Battlestar Galactica are a bunch of homophobic twats. More politely though, of course. And even ignoring all the background info about, say, Ron Moore's experience with the scary ass shit that is the Star Trek franchise, it still involves directly quoting and paraphrasing small amounts of material from a lot of episodes. Sound familiar?
You could have easily just made a vid featuring all the various porny interludes they've had over the years, with OMG SHE TOUCHED HER SHOULDER as counterpoint, to make the exact same argument. And the fact that Gaeta's the only prominent character to have never had any romantic subplot at all by now. *sigh*
I kind of want to do that now. Because it's one thing to describe scenes in musty prose, but I think a point can hit people a lot harder when they physically see what you're saying. We connect lots of smaller dots of other people's work to create a unique whole in much the same way as an academic paper. And if you cite your sources, how is that terribly different?