A group of us on Dollars Discord are coming together to create Durarara Abridged and we need more voice actors for the characters! We currently have entries but we would like to try getting as many as possible! To sign up all you need to do is join the discord link at the end of this thread and click the google doc and put in which characters you would like to try out as. For convenience of everyone trying out, we would like you to pick only a few characters to play as (2-3) so that every character has a good sum of people going for them. We're really excited to see where this project goes and hope we have a lot of you signing up soon. We hope to see you in the discord!

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/VYQx9

Google Docs Character Applications: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZqFmUsQRQGrrnKKuPXeMV9f-Mq5DmDSVWS1Lms0g7Rk9JoQ/viewform

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Hey,I'm TChrome the director of this project I just wanted to say this when picking rolls pick one or two big ones and one or two small ones this way we can fill all the rolls so try a stray from choosing 3 major roles like Celty or Izaya or Mikado even Erika has gotten many applications but that still leaves other ones open so please keep those in mind

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People told me this link was not working so here is one that will not expire.

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/Pa3Kfsy

Does durarara NEED an abridged series? Honestly, think ti yourself, this is a complicated series, by no means perfect (ezaya's sisters anyone?), but do you really think, as fans, that you can 1) stray enough from the original series for it to warrant "fair use" and somehoe as the same time 2) stay close enough to the original show for people to still enjoy it.

1.You have understand how "Fair use" works we could make it a near fan dub as long as we don't Monitize or claim it to be ours it's fair use.
2.Staying close won't be an issue, we know how we want the characters to be some change a bit from there normal counterparts some like Izaya himself will stay the same only becoming maybe more of an a**hole.
Overall this is a passion project we love the show and want to express that through this series so no Durarara might not need an abridged series. But bottom line we want to try.

>>7 AHAHAH- Seriously though, that's not how fair use works.

Very few things outside educational and review content are actually transformative enough constitute fair use as per the written guidelines in the US. Even then, those are only guidelines -- creators are free to sue you if they feel your use of their copyrighted content does not constitute fair use. You have to be confident enough in your use that you can prove otherwise in court, and it's unlikely you'll get granted a counter-suit beyond having your court costs covered.

That said, most anime publishers are very lenient about fan works. They understand that it is free advertising. But if your work is especially insulting or puts any of their American trademarks at risk, or if you are making money without permission, you will generally be asked to cease operations if they find out.

Note also that the anime companies rarely own the copyrights to the music (and often, sfx) that they are using, so be sure to cut what you can out unless you want to face the hell that is any major music publisher.

Just, ya kno. FYI stuff. (This small of a project shouldn't have too many issues.)

>>8 enough to*

Yeah it was a simple but youtube's fair use does have parody listed was what I meant I know it's a little more than that tho

>>10 It's one thing to parody a work and another to use someone's existing assets to create a parody. If you were animating it yourself and switching names up, you could parody it to the point of legitimacy and even allow monetization. But abridged series generally use too much content from the original series to be fully protected under parody laws :0 They're just fanfiction with stolen assets (with a few exceptions).

Again, though, little unmonetized projects like this should be fine.

/I am not a lawyer, this isn's legal advice, lol.

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Honestly, a fan dub js a HUGE breaking of fair use. It doesn't matter if you monotone it or not. You seem to have no idea how the fair use laws work. I hope this actually gets made, but I have low hopes now.

I mean if you wanna make it "better" you can become part of the team

I don't have the time, the technology. Or the legal knowledge, my dude.

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After I typed up all of the following post, I realized that every bit of this is assuming you're using U.S.A. copyright law. I'll let you make sure that this is the case.

Most of what BarabiSama said holds true and is good advice. I assume that when you say an Abridged series, you mean a series of abridged, re-dubbed clips from Drrr with a comedic purpose. (Yes, it has to be for comedy.) In this case, you're allowed fairly extensive use of the original work's material to properly imitate the original. HOWEVER, your parody must not interfere with the original work's ability to generate revenue. The idea that making money off of something doesn't make it fair use or not making making money makes it fair use is completely false. As long as your production and advertisement does not interfere with Drrr's ability to make money, copyright law doesn't care if you make money. (Now I would not try and stretch this if I were you. You're generally better off not trying to monetize this since it's just a fan work.)

The bit BarabiSama said about the music (the OP, the background music, and possibly the SFX) is very important. Music production companies are much more aggressive when it comes to stuff like this than anime studios. If you want your series to have music, use music that has already explicitly been marked available for reproduction. Orrrrr, it would be way cool if you contacted some of the many artists on YouTube that do anime cover songs and get one (or more) of them to do your music. I think that would be a fun way to add some legitimacy to your product, spread your potential audience and fanbase, and increase the quality of your product all while adhering to copyright law.

Now even if you do break copyright law at some point, you'll probably be fine. Just about every abridged series I've watched has had some sort of breach of copyright law somewhere, and most of these series are one egregious breach of the law. Don't be lazy, do your homework, and try to involve the entire community. Good luck!!

>>16 If you admit to not having enough knowledge of copyright law or the American legal system to contribute helpful knowledge to the project, why did you spout misinformed bullshit with your "low hopes?"

Honestly enough about the copyright stuff just sign up if you want to if something happens we'll deal with it then instead of freaking out about it

But for the rest of what you said Mr.Valdr I agree with and think is smart. I mean the idea of having covers genius I love it. But yeah I'll try and stay as fair usey as possible thanks for your input it's much welcomed and appreciated! :D

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I would like to remind all future applicants you must join the discord server if you can't clink the invite copy paste it because if you don't join or at least leave something for me to contact you with I have to dismiss your application since well you can't audition if we can't hear you

I dint know if you've heard jf "dawnsomewhere", but they do an mlp abridged series, usi bf theur own anumation,music, and all, but they still get copywrite issues all the time. A fan dub will get you in troubble.

I don't mean to be rude but do you shut up? Like yeah I had a misinformed understanding of fair use. But you're still my fan dub comment like please just shut up already.

Yiu never made it clear that you udnerstood, when other people said something about it.

This might sound like a jack ass thing to day after all uve said, but are the auditions still open?

Yeah they are just had to close the application temporarily due to an issue

Applications are back up!

Just so everyone knows applications will end October 31st unless we get enough before then after which auditions will officially begin! Good luck to those who've already applied and for those who haven't don't be shy we'll be glad to have you try!

I only started watching Durarara recently, and therefore would like to ask question, it seems like a pretty old anime with Shizuoka ina shame made in 2012, so why is there still so much hype? Did it even end at all? And if not was it recent?

Durarara ended a while ago. I just think that more people are f uh Ning kut abkut it recently.

>>31 It's nice to see other people who can speak Klingon, but it's usually better if you don't switch between English and Klingon mid-sentence.

>>30 The final season of Durarara ended not too long ago. Plus, masterpieces always have hype.