Bill Cammack » copyright http://billcammack.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:01:23 +0000 en-us hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Facebook Copyright Infringement http://billcammack.com/2009/04/28/facebook-copyright-infringement/ http://billcammack.com/2009/04/28/facebook-copyright-infringement/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:44:10 +0000 Bill Cammack notification alleged copyright violation hello disabled to file a counter notice filing a counter notice mistake file a counter notice alleged infringement file a counter notification for copyrighted material owned 12am april 21st http://billcammack.com/?p=4785

So I find this relatively funny.

The same site that conspired to steal ALL of our material, what? TWO months ago? by changing their ToS out from under our noses and saying “All Y’all’s Content Are Belong To Us” decided to remove a video of mine from Facebook.

This is what my Facebook home page currently looks like:
Bill Cammack - Facebook Copyright Infringement
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This morning (April 28, 2009), I received this email:

Subject: Notification of Alleged Copyright Violation

Hello,

We have removed your video entitled “Down. 2007-2009″ uploaded at 5:12am April 21st, 2009. We did this because it appears to contain copyrighted material owned by a third party, such as a video clip or background audio. If you believe this material was removed by mistake, you may file a counter notice of alleged infringement by following the link below.

Please note that if you re-upload this video without filing a counter notice, or if you upload another video that infringes on the rights of a third party, we may remove the content. This could cause your access to the Facebook Video application, or your Facebook account itself, to be disabled.

To file a counter notice:
File a Counter Notification

For any other questions, view our Help page.

The Facebook Team

Now, I don’t care at all that they took the video down and I don’t have any problems with it. Actually, I didn’t want to post it to Facebook in the first place, but it was the only way I could tag the Facebook Members that were in the video.

This is also interesting because it reminds me of YouTube’s policy of stripping audio from videos.

As we all know by now, the best deal is to have copies of your material in case the site you upload your content to changes it’s ToS on you or folds entirely. (Neither situation having anything to do with this particular post).

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NewTeeVee.com reports that Viacom sued YouTube and Google today over the display of copyrighted materials.

Of course, this makes sense with all the pirated material on YouTube….

Another NewTeeVee article may shed extra light on the situation, since Viacom has signed on to be a content partner with Joost. An amount of your value to a particular site as a content creator or producer is that people HAVE to go to that site to see your content. If people are ripping your videos to YouTube, your effectiveness is diluted, AND _your_group_ doesn’t get any credit for the hits or popularity of your own content. It all goes to the pirate, along with whomever subscribes to that channel in the hopes of finding even more of your content.

I’m still waiting to see what YouTube’s going to do about revenue-sharing with non-professional content creators. I’d like to see what their plan is to monetize the channels of the popular YT characters like Boh3m3 and TheHill88 and LisaNova an even the proven-to-be-scripted Lonelygirl15.

Hopefully, there’ll be money left over for people who are actually creative on YouTube after deals are made to pay off the lawsuits about the blatant and rampant piracy of previously-made, copyrighted content.

Bill Cammack • New York City • Freelance Video Editor • alum.mit.edu/www/billcammack

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