Talk:MAD (Video)

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I went to begin adding citations to this page and discovered that the entire history section, plus some of the section on types, was taken word for word from Outlaw's page without citation. Outlaw himself got his information from sites like ＭＡＤ館. I'm not sure how to handle this. The information is useful, but the tone and direct copying without indicating quotation are both issues. Would welcome help/advice on this. -The Old Briar Pipe (talk) 06:57, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

For lack of response so far, I'm just going to start collecting resources here and hope that someone comes along with more expertise before I finish. Note to self: make sure to link to both Vidding and Anime Music Video, as separate traditions. -The Old Briar Pipe (talk) 03:10, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

NicoNico
NicoNicoDouga lists 63,716 videos tagged with "MAD" on the site as of May 18, 2015. They also resolve "MAD動画" (aka "MAD Movies") to "MAD" in the dictionary section. Be cautious of assuming everything on this page is talking about works made from video sources.

Niconico dictionary defines MAD Movies as "MADとは、動画や音声を編集、改編し新たな意味を付加された動画や音声のことを指す. つまり、二次創作物である. " or something like: "MAD Movies are edited video and/or sound, reorganized to add new meaning to the video and/or sound selected. In other words, it's a derivative work." (Sorry for the rough translation. Also, the word "二次創作物", which I translate here as "derivative work", doesn't have the same legal connotations that the word "derivative" has under US copyright law and shouldn't be taken to mean that MADs share the legal standing and social attitudes that works classified as "derivative" in the US do.)

The rest of the subsection describes how MAD originally meant to go crazy or something similar, so attached to works it meant that something was peculiar or idiosyncratic. Rough translation of the last 3 sentences: "In the period of the 1970s-1980s, MAD Tapes were originally made. These were also called Kichigai Tapes. For this reason, the word "MAD" is typically only found in Japanese works; the English-speaking world uses different words." The parenthetical sentence then goes on to try to define AMVs.

Common tags that overlap with the MAD tag are Anime and Video Game. Subtags of MAD appears to include:
 * 静止画MAD, which appear to be MADs made out of still pictures.
 * OtoMAD, "Sound MAD", not sure what it is yet, still looking.

Skyscraper
http://web.archive.org/web/20030920032557/http://babanba_n.at.infoseek.co.jp/