take it down

metabiblio:

samuraifrog:

thefydisneygirlsguy:

LOL

“You Wouldn’t Download a Car”

=> “FUCK YOU. I WOULD IF I COULD”

October 08, 2009, 5:24pm  Comments

metabiblio:

samuraifrog:

Good, they fucking deserve it. (thedailywhat)

“EVERY TIME YOU TORRENT GOD KILLS A CINEMA”

October 08, 2009, 5:23pm  Comments

[source:boingboing:ceaseanddesist]

“The Royal Mail has sent a ‘cease and desist’ letter to ErnestMarples.com, a website that provides a post code API allowing social projects to perform post code lookups […]”

October 06, 2009, 7:38pm  Comments

[source:boingboing:manga]

Manga’s Japanese decline — and the copyright infringers who are stopping it

Wired continues its series of excellent features about manga — following up on this morning’s mini-comic with a lucid and fascinating story by Daniel Pink about the faltering market for manga in Japan and the way that copyright infringing donjishi (fan-comics) are helping to staunch the bleeding, and thus attracting support from the giant wealthy corporations they appropriate from.

October 06, 2009, 2:09am  Comments

[source:miaca.org:copyleftandart]

“More and more art today is created from remixed or mashed-up digital content such as photo, animation, moving image and music. Nowadays, copyright is an issue for everyone who writes blogs on the internet, is a member of SNS groups such as mixi, facebook and my space, or a user of sites such as flickr, YouTube, NikoNiko Doga and so on.”

“Intellectual property is important financial resource especially in the west - the US and Europe already have a longer period of copyright. This development may choke a new circulation of creativity. On the other hand, copyright is critical for professional artists.”

“Copyleft is sometimes misunderstood as being totally against copyright. Copyleft is rather an attempt to protect the exclusive right of creators while also nurturing emerging creativity.”

October 06, 2009, 1:52am  Comments

[source:seltzer.org:wendysblog:myfirstdmcatakedown]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Video Removed: Copyright Infringement
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:43:24 -0800 (PST)
From: DMCA Complaints
To: peppercornconsider 

Dear Member:

This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following
material as a result of a third-party notification by National Football League claiming
that this material is infringing:

Super Bowl Highlights: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4uC2H10uIo)

Please Note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of
your account and all videos uploaded to that account. In order to avoid future
strikes against your account, please delete any videos to which you do not own the
rights, and  refrain from uploading additional videos that infringe on the copyrights
of others. For more information about YouTube's copyright policy, please read the
"Copyright Tips" guide: http://www.youtube.com/t/howto_copyright.

If you elect to send us a counter notice, to be effective it must be a written
communication provided to our designated agent that includes substantially the
following (please consult your legal counsel or see 17 U.S.C. Section 512(g)(3) to
confirm these requirements):

(A) A physical or electronic signature of the subscriber.

(B) Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been
disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or
access to it was disabled.

(C) A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief
that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification
of the material to be removed or disabled.

(D) The subscriber's name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that
the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial
district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber's address is outside of
the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be
found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who
provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

Such written notice should be sent to our designated agent as follows:

DMCA Complaints
YouTube, Inc.
1000 Cherry Ave.
Second Floor
San Bruno, CA  94066
Email: copyright@youtube.com

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who
knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled
by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability.

Sincerely,
YouTube, Inc.

October 06, 2009, 1:46am   Comments

[source:flickr:larrabetzutik:copyleft]

October 06, 2009, 1:43am  Comments

[source:wikipedia:dmca]

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as Digital Rights Management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works. It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself. In addition, the DMCA heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. Passed on October 12, 1998 by a unanimous vote in the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998, the DMCA amended Title 17 of the United States Code to extend the reach of copyright, while limiting the liability of the providers of on-line services for copyright infringement by their users.

On May 22, 2001, the European Union passed the EU Copyright Directive or EUCD, which addresses some of the same issues as the DMCA. But the DMCA’s principal innovation in the field of copyright, the exemption from direct and indirect liability of internet service providers and other intermediaries (Title II of the DMCA), was separately addressed, and largely followed, in Europe by means of the separate Electronic Commerce Directive. (Unlike U.S. federal laws and regulations, the execution of European Union directives usually requires separate legislation by or within each of the Union’s member states.)

October 06, 2009, 12:49am   Comments

[this one is from Veoh to me for another video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZNPJVJ1Cc), for which I had complete rights]

Dear jhorsager,

Veoh has received a notice from a copyright holder or otherwise discovered that the videos listed below and posted through your account contain material alleged to infringe on copyrights held by another party.

Posting infringing content on Veoh is a violation of our Terms of Service policies. As a result we have disabled access to those videos on the Veoh service. In addition, if this account continues to be used to post infringing content we will have to terminate your account.

Copyrighted content may include things such as television shows, movies, concerts or DVD copies, unless they consist of content you created entirely yourself.

If you believe this action is a mistake and you do have the right to post this content you may request review of this matter by contacting copyright-agent@veoh.com.

If you have any questions please contact copyright-agent@veoh.com or see our FAQs.

The Veoh Team

Disabled videos:

• The Husband

[my response] ==>

{to copyright-agent@veoh.com }

I’m quite sure you didn’t receive a notice from a copyright holder, because that would be me — unless you are talking about the music — but that would be wrong too, because I am working with the composer Jami and her record company Magnatune.

It baffles me as to why you made the decision you did.  On what evidence?
Anyway,  you’re wrong.  I’m not sure where you got your “copyright violation” tip from, but I can assure you it is bogus.  My video was never live, so the decision had to be made internally, yet you say you have received  “a notice from a copyright holder” .

It’s impossible because:
1. the video was never even shown on your site
2. i am the creator and copyright holder

You can review it if you want, I don’t care.  I don’t plan to re-upload.

I suggest a review of your ‘copyright infringement’ process instead.

Jeff

October 06, 2009, 12:27am   Comments

[this one is from Facebook to me for a short video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25-Sbuuyhxw) the video is an original work, but it’s true i did not have rights to the merle haggard song]

Hello,

We have removed your video entitled “Chuck Dickens: Illiterate Trucker” uploaded at 9:13am September 23rd, 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

October 06, 2009, 12:23am   Comments