Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use... it ain't over yet.

2007-12-27 Thread Steve Rhodes
The high school student who is running the page clearly has more sense than they and the lawyers (and why don't they run their own YouTube page). No, fair use isn't limited to three second clips. And Jason surely knows more than whatever lawyers they have sending threatening letters. He

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use... it ain't over yet.

2007-12-27 Thread Markus Sandy
fyi, this person has joined this group today more conversation here ... http://lanbui.com/2007/12/24/how-to-keep-a-high-star-rating-on-youtube/ On Dec 27, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Heath wrote: Um...I'm not sure why I got this email, but I did, so I thought I would pass it along but it was sent

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use... it ain't over yet.

2007-12-26 Thread Irina
yay! thank you john for not sitting down on the job! i am really looking forward to see how this turns out really, i just think rhyming crustacean with vacation is all i care about and i am trying to protect the rhyme LOL jason, as always, u da bomb On Dec 25, 2007 11:43 PM, ractalfece [EMAIL

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use... it ain't over yet.

2007-12-26 Thread Jay dedman
A lawyer who is an expert in copyright law and online free speech has offered to represent me pro bono! And it all happened because I started talking about on this list and Irina forwarded it to Jason Schultz at LawGeek who is now representing me. I can't thank everybody enough. File this

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use... the situation is resolved.

2007-12-24 Thread Markus Sandy
so much for living in the now :) On Dec 24, 2007, at 12:20 AM, ractalfece wrote: Otherwise, she will hunt me down, her team is researching my website server right now to have it shut down. She will ask youtube to delete my entire account. She says she will begin a two year legal battle.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use... the situation is resolved.

2007-12-24 Thread Jay dedman
Well, the good news is I worked out a compromise. The bad news is the video I just spent 10+ hours working on will never be posted. She wants me to sever all connection to her from the video, remove her name, the metatags and the youtube response connection so that nobody watching her

RE: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-23 Thread John Cardenas
John yep, definitely , your version is so damn hilarious-keep on...I am still laughing JohnDkar www.youtube.com/johndkar http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Rhodes
A remix can be fair use (Dara Birnbaum's work starting in the late 70s is just one example. here is one of her pieces and more are under related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jwkf-sQTWAfeature=related ) the sites I included have good explanations of fair use. -- Steve Rhodes

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Brook Hinton
Unfortunately only a judge or jury ultimately gets to decide what's fair use, which means the person without the in house legal team is at the mercy of the person with legal resources regardless of who's right and who's wrong. Follow Steve's links above for the nitty gritty. This seems like an

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast?
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:11 am, Jay dedman wrote: All the stories I hear make it seem like the video hosts' have no choice but to take down any video that is someone asks. They don't have to, but they do most of the time in the name of rear-end coverage. You do have a recourse to fight a

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Brian Richardson - WhatTheCast?
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:49 am, Brook Hinton wrote: Unfortunately only a judge or jury ultimately gets to decide what's fair use, which means the person without the in house legal team is at the mercy of the person with legal resources regardless of who's right and who's wrong. Brook is dead on

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
They don't have to, but they do most of the time in the name of rear-end coverage. You do have a recourse to fight a takedown in writing, and challenging in writing typically causes the host to review the material ... I used this once with YouTube to get the Stormtroopers Gone Wild video

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
Which brings up another point, my video was posted as a video response. I re-read their original message (from July 14th) after I posted my response. We aren't going to authorize it to be posted to our own video in connection, though, just to let you know, but we are happy to let you use

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Copyright and fair use...

2007-12-22 Thread Jay dedman
Oh, man. You need to send Bonny out to interview Christine Breese on the subject of Monkey Mind. It would truly be the Greatest Thing Ever. ;) Lan, please do this. they can mind meld. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video: http://ryanishungry.com Twitter: