Well, with its 100,000 DMCA takedown notices aimed at YouTube users, now it’s Viacom that is netting its share of dolphins. Among the 100,000 videos targeted for takedowns was a home movie shot in a BBQ joint, a film trailer by a documentarian, and a music video (previously here) about karaoke in Singapore. None of these contained anything owned by Viacom. For its part, Viacom has admitted to “no more than” 60 mistakes, so far. Yet each mistake impacts free speech, both of the author of the video and of the viewing public.Did Viacom take down your video? Let them know if they did.
Bookmark/Search this post with:
Front page
DRM
Just to be the stickler in the audience: this has nothing to do with DRM. It’s all about copyright, not about technological means of keeping you from coping a video you legally own.
Replace “DRM” with “Excessive copyright” and everything is still correct. ;-)
DRM
Hey,those are MY initials and I want them back,
unharmed!
thanks, matt
i changed it.
So you did
Sonny Bono thanks you from beyond for remembering his Copyright Act. :-)
Bad for free speech?
Copyright law is what enables free speech. The very fact that you crossed out DRM and replaced it with “Current copyright law” show that you don’t have a clue about what you are talking. Rather, you are simply looking for something to cry about.