Background summary of my experience with video yanking by Viacom
Good news
Here is the communication I just received from YouTube:
Dear Mr. Moore,
Viacom International has retracted its copyright claim with respect to the
video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QUzOP42dg1I
This content has been restored and your account will not be penalized.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Team
Bad News
Other innocent folks are still having their videos yanked, and/or are [...]
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Relevant links
Situation summary at TopTenSources: Organize with others if the Viacom Sweep caught up your personal video
Google Blog Search for “Viacom YouTube”
My first post about being “caught up in the sweep.”
Who owns this video???
John Dvorak Uncensored on “Viacom Idiots”
Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing on “Viacom terrorizes YouTube with bullshit DMCA notices”
For most [...]
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» YouTube: Is Viacom hurting innocent YouTubers? | Digital Markets | ZDNet.com
Donna Bogatin has expanded the discussion by suggesting that YouTube and Google are the real villains, not Viacom. Her argument is that Viacom is only protecting its rights against what she sees as a parasitic Google business model. She seems to believe [...]
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YouTube and Viacom: TopTenSources has organized a way to send in your DMCA notices and see how many folks were victimized by the Viacom “mistake.”
As everybody knows now, Viacom forced YouTube to take down 100,000 videos today, and to send out tens of thousands of DMCA Complaint notices. I received one for a genuine [...]
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Sunday nite dinner at Redbones in Somerville, Mass, a very short video by Jim Moore - Google Video
Play the video. I think it speaks for itself.
Viacom will of course say that this is a “mistake.” The question is, out of the 100,000 videos taken down today on YouTube at Viacom’s request, how many [...]
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Added Sunday 2/4/07: Here is a site to visit if your personal videos were removed and you want to mobilize.
I just received a notice that a video of mine has been removed from YouTube because of a complaint by Viacom. The video, for the record, is a short home clip, about 30 seconds, of [...]
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[See the more complete post for perspective]
YouTube - My Videos
Sunday nite dinner at Redbones in Somerville, Mass
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James Corbett, author of the Open Irish Directory (and visiting from Ireland), A James Corbett, author of the Open Irish Directory (and visiting from Ireland), Adam Green and Mike Kowalchik from Grazr, Juliette from TA Associates [...]
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Public Outlines authored by jcorbett, click here to enter a vast and endlessly fascinating ecology of playlist-of playlists providing dymanic, continuously fresh engagement with Irish personalities of the online world.
The base of the web is made up of millions of URLs. Each URL calls forth resources from web servers. In some of the [...]
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