YouTube Is Sending Copyright Offenders Back to School [VIDEO] - Polidicks

Stupid as hell, I hate that I find a song I like on youtube and it's taken down because the company called copyright infringment. Yet the company won't reupload it.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;29192941]Youtube has like 10 hours of content uploaded every minute. They have a lot to go through.[/QUOTE] youtube doesn't go through any of it they just go back later whenever someone sends them a takedown or flags it and take it down out of pure fear

This is stupid as shit.

haha if anything this shows how much tedious bullshit is involved with uploading a video that may have like 5 seconds of a song or something in it.

[QUOTE=chewgo;29195381]I uploaded a video of my favorite clip from a Pokemon episode, with some parts cut out between it, and when YouTube took it down, I claimed that it was Fair Use because I was commenting on it. Then they let it go up for a day before they shut it down again. I don't even know why they pretend to have people who check when videos go down. If you have enough people who flag a video, it goes down. If a copyright claim is made, your video is probably gonna go down no matter what. [editline]15th April 2011[/editline] Oh and I forgot, I added a caption or two on it.[/QUOTE] I haven't watched your video so I can't comment on if it was covered under fair use or not. I think the rule of thumb is 10% or so counts as fair use, more or less depending on what kind of copyrighted material it is.

[QUOTE=chewgo;29188948]The thing about Youtube is that it DOESN'T cohere to copyright laws. It shits its pants everytime a corporation sees its content on Youtube, takes it down and says "YOU ARE VIOLATING COPYRIGHT LAW, ENJOY OUR DICK IN YOUR ASS." It doesn't matter if it's "fair use," they'll remove it with the slightest complaint from a corporation. Wow, fuck you youtube and your lying videos. In this video, they explicitly showed someone parodying a song by showing dancing to it, and saying that it's AGAINST copyright law. It was shown to be PROTECTED COMPLETELY by this: [url]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/20/MNU412FKRL.DTL[/url][/QUOTE] This really shines when corporations take down shit while claiming they made something, when actually [B]they had nothing to with the creation of amy of the video content.[/B] For example, when they took down Mr. Safety's Mean Kitty song video.

[QUOTE=clanratc;29196289]I haven't watched your video so I can't comment on if it was covered under fair use or not. I think the rule of thumb is 10% or so counts as fair use, more or less depending on what kind of copyrighted material it is.[/QUOTE] Let's just say I contributed virtually nothing to the video, but under fair use it was completely nonprofit and I believe it was educational. The thing about it is, there is no rule of thumb to this and there is no way to measure how much someone contributed to a video.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;29196306]This really shines when corporations take down shit while claiming they made something, when actually [B]they had nothing to with the creation of amy of the video content.[/B] For example, when they took down Mr. Safety's Mean Kitty song video.[/QUOTE] Team Fortress 2 Meet the Spy Taken down due to copyright claim by [b]EA Europe[/b]

Sonic has something to say about this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwSVogX0sc8&feature=related[/media]

BANNED FOR LIFE has google heard of dynamic ips :v:

[QUOTE=chewgo;29194949][url]http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html[/url] Who's to say (besides a judge) that saying, "this is my favorite song, I like these parts," and posting a youtube video of the song, doesn't fall into fair use's commenting? A YouTube video that includes a popular song in it hardly affects the "potential market" if the same video is uploaded by the copyright holders on YouTube. And the first, main factor: the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; All YouTube videos that aren't by partners are for nonprofit education purposes, not commercial at all. If a partner is using copyrighted material, he or she falls out of fair use.[/QUOTE] CS:S frag video, "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor". Educational use? In fact I would think that it's only really educational use if it's being used to educate about the song. I.E. a book about author Kurt Vonnegut quoting a few paragraphs of his book Slaughterhouse-Five. In that case, even a video about quantum mechanics can be taken down for background music, if the background music is not the SUBJECT of the education.

Everyone flag this video.

[QUOTE=Crimor;29188139]Nope, remixes DO NOT require the authors permission, hence how weird al, and dj's can do what they do. Youtube doesn't even know the copyright laws[/QUOTE] No, more likely they know that copyright holders will stir shit up anyway regardless of if they have a legal basis or not.

Hey YouTube, why not do a separate video entirely on fair use? This whole thing reminds me of the Der Untergang scandal a few years back.

Only reason youtube gives a fuck is because their balls are held in a vice by hypocritical companies.

[QUOTE=Taggart;29196669]Team Fortress 2 Meet the Spy Taken down due to copyright claim by [b]EA Europe[/b][/QUOTE] Didn't Virgin claim copyright on Meet the Sniper too?

The issue with copyright on Youtube is that Google doesn't want to be paying legal fees to fight every case regarding someones video that infringes on copyright. It's much easier for the user to just receive a notice, and have their video taken down, than Google keep the video up, go to court, and fight a copyright case on one persons account. Then multiply that by all the videos that get removed by copyright notices, and that money adds up. I'd rather Youtube spend money on improving their services than fighting court cases.

People [i]still[/i] think the Happy Tree Friends are funny?

sellouts

Did you guys notice that if you have a certain amount of videos that abide to YT's rules, you can upload videos of arbitrary length instead of the 15 minute limit?

[QUOTE=john_pelphre;29188172]Cool thing about Al is that he still goes and get permission, because he respects the artists. Maybe everyone should be Weird Al.[/QUOTE] That means he would lose his value.

[QUOTE=SBD;29187679]Just because you make someone play a video doesn't mean they're actually going to sit there and watch it.[/QUOTE] But then they can't claim ignorance, not that that was ever a valid excuse.

So that means RWJ should watch this Right?

[QUOTE=mr apple;29195910]Stupid as hell, I hate that I find a song I like on youtube and it's taken down because the company called copyright infringment. Yet the company won't reupload it.[/QUOTE] Because they want you to pay money for it...

[QUOTE=johan_sm;29189681]Also if this was true, RWJ would be banned for life[/QUOTE] Actually.. using a tiny snippet of someone else's work constitutes "fair use". I've no idea what's stopping people snipping one second off a video and claiming it's not the entire work but only a portion.

[QUOTE=joeboe242;29200232]So that means RWJ should watch this Right?[/QUOTE] Yes, unless he asks for permission or the people who owns the videos bother filing a takedown claim. [editline]16th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=FlapadarV2;29200496]Actually.. using a tiny snippet of someone else's work constitutes "fair use". I've no idea what's stopping people snipping one second off a video and claiming it's not the entire work but only a portion.[/QUOTE] Because cutting off 1 second doesn't count as using a very small amount of the original content.

[QUOTE=FlapadarV2;29200496]Actually.. using a tiny snippet of someone else's work constitutes "fair use". I've no idea what's stopping people snipping one second off a video and claiming it's not the entire work but only a portion.[/QUOTE] Go ahead and try to claim that technicality and see where it gets you.

If I make a video in the real world and upload it who do I have to get permission from? Does the government own the copyright to the United States?

But Im Canadian and this doesn't apply.

25 seconds in is a pretty good metaphor for what YouTube has been doing since Google took over.