BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa, whose company sends all those indiscriminate takedown notices (a million a month!) to YouTube on behalf of Viacom and other studios, has a funny take on copyright law. He complains that YouTube’s copyright filter isn’t doing its “job”.
Two things, Ishikawa:
1) YouTube is a DMCA safe harbor. As such, it falls upon […]
First, the bad news: the admins of The Pirate Bay are being charged with assisting copyright infringement by US big media companies. “Assisting”, eh? Guess the fat cats can’t nail them on actual copyright infringement when they don’t actually host the content.
Now, the good news: Whether or not the charges prosper, The Pirate Bay will […]
Viacom is infamous for its indiscriminate YouTube takedowns, but this is just bullshit. YouTube comedian Cory “Mr. Safety” Williams wrote a song called Make Poop that just got taken down by Viacom. Yes, you read that right — Viacom claims a song about shit.
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Backwater third-world TV networks can be even more clueless than their first-world counterparts. When Philippine TV network ABS-CBN was recently embroiled in a game show cheating scandal, blogger Jepoy Bengero posted a YouTube video defending them. ABS-CBN even praised Jepoy for doing so:
In fact, YouTube users beat ABS-CBN in analyzing how the technical glitch on […]
“Intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century.” — Mark Getty, Chairman, Getty Images.
Steal This Film (2006) was revolutionary in that it was the first documentary about filesharing not made by some offline media outfit looking to protect its own outdated business model. The sequel, Steal This Film II, goes even further with historical […]
This is viral vigilantism at its finest. After a hit YouTube video gets taken down by one whiny photographer ignoring fair use, Kevin Nalts encourages video creators to show that n00b how teh Intarwebs work. The results are awesome.
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Now here’s a conundrum for the copyright trolls at NBC. Barack Obama just posted his Saturday Night Live appearance on YouTube. You will recall that NBC CEO Jeff Zucker hates YouTube, going so far as to pull NBC’s YouTube channel.
Now Obama’s an upfront kind of guy, so I assume he secured some sort of special […]
Prince is such a fruity copyright-trolling wimp, even a baby could beat him. Eighteen-month-old Holden Lenz frolicked while part of the Purple Pussy’s hit Let’s Get Crazy played faintly in the background. Apparently, The Artist Formerly Known as Clueful does not want babies doing that on YouTube, so he had Universal Music send a DMCA […]
YouTube beta-launches its much-awaited video identification technology, giving copyright holders a choice: either automatically block your content, or automatically profit from it. Now there’s an IQ test for copyright holders. If you are one, sign up here for that IQ test.
While video identification will test media execs’ IQs, it will only raise the Googlebot’s IQ. […]
A while back, I mentioned how Viacom accused copyright holder Christopher Knight of copyright infringement. Viacom even used a DMCA takedown notification to remove evidence Knight posted on YouTube, evidence that Viacom actually stole a video clip from Knight. Thanks to the resulting uproar, YouTube has honored Knight’s counter-notification, restoring the evidence of Viacom’s crime.
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Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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