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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YouTube star Kevin Nalts gives Viacom a well-deserved trashing for its copyright hypocrisy towards Christopher Knight.
Viacom definitely owes Knight an apology, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Viacom is a gang of thieves with the audacity to point fingers after being caught red-handed. Any criminal organization that can make me use three clichés in one […]
Viacom has long been taking down content they don’t even own, but this time they really went nuts. After using someone’s YouTube video in their TV show, they turn around and accuse him of copyright infringement. Pot calling kettle…
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It’s amazing how you can make total fools of the Motion Picture Association of America simply by reminding them that the global market is bigger than America. After a US court orders torrent search engine TorrentSpy to violate their users’ privacy and hand over user data for a silly MPAA fishing expedition, TorrentSpy simply cuts […]
Here they go again — and this time, they’re going lower. After supporting a third-party suit against YouTube over LA riot footage, NBC and Viacom want to support a porn site’s suit against Veoh.
Last week Viacom and NBC petitioned to file a document known as an Amicus Brief in a little known case between Veoh […]
Last month, I voiced my concerns about ex-Yahoo exec Steve Mitgang taking over as CEO of Veoh, seeing as Veoh’s so innovative and Yahoo’s so bleh. Mr. Mitgang’s done something to ease those concerns a bit: proactively defending Veoh’s status as a DMCA safe harbor. He’s asking a court to prevent Universal from suing them.
Apparently, […]
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Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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