incredible, perfect example of stifling speech. do you want to blog about this on fc.o, jonah?
On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Jonah Bossewitch wrote: > Hi, > > I know that YANAL, but I recently encountered a situation that I > wanted > to bring up for discussion. > > Me and an anonymous friend (GenericPrescriptions) have written a > multimedia essay which critiques and parodies the new Fox TV show > Mental: > > http://alchemicalmusings.org/2009/08/23/mad-men-women-and-children/ > > For this critique to be effective, we needed to use short clips from > the > show, humorously illustrating the manipulation in action. We are > completely confident that this use of Fox's copyrighted media falls > squarely under the protections of "Fair Use." we have already run into > some difficulties with one video hosting company (YouTube) and are > concerned about our ability to keep this important media analysis > available on the internet. > > When one of the clips was uploaded to YouTube, the system immediately > (!), automatically (!!), and correctly (!!!) identified the content as > copyright Fox (see below). YouTube does offer us a disputation > procedure, which we have not yet filed, but are interested in > pursuing. > > I am curious what people think about this situation. The raw clips on > their own /might/ not be transformative , but in their final form on > vimeo we included links to the critical parody, as well as tags. If > adding metadata is tranformative for CSPAN and Lexis-Nexus - see the > metavid case and the page numbers on law cases - it should be > transformative to us! > > But the meat of the transformation happens in the mashup of the video > clips and the text. > > Furthermore, I imagine these ISPs can assert (rightfully?) whatever > terms of service they desire - so I am not sure how to frame my case > to > youtube as to why these clips should not be restored. > > How do you think we might most effectively dispute YouTube's automatic > takedown? > > Thanks! > /Jonah > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/> > <http://www.youtube.com/> help center > <http://www.google.com/support/youtube/> | e-mail options > <http://www.youtube.com/account#notifications/events> | report spam > <http://www.youtube.com/email_spam?v=1a&c=7-7tDGhMdz_mmc88oC_fjv4JMn7jp5zWTmXofacy0YrxkTDj1P-hlp6vT8lbPntNadUB62BHwd-hN0JiGMWwj7TcNPETobs4-eL-yaiUMQtH5cr4soeXwvixizIG9g3pCTHqtoZSsfbSf0ddp7Pmy5oIjkp-4i8hhYsaQK--oR5YwdS3sDKFEYmaOs9bPR28-SCQgYQhzvMzl5TYOQ1X5Qe-9MsXRrcE7aTk6WYQ2vYSlaxeoAGI2w== > > > > > > Dear GenericPrescriptions, > > Your video, a new cocktail <http://www.youtube.com/watch? > v=GjudId9J9gA>, > may have content that is owned or licensed by FOX. > > No action is required on your part; however, if you are interested in > learning how this affects your video, please visit the Content ID > Matches section of your account > <http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_copyright> for more information. > > Sincerely, > - The YouTube Team > > © 2009 YouTube, LLC > 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
