IANAL, but there seems two aspects to the actions of sites like Heavy.com: - Thievery or stealing of material - Breaking of copyright contract
The DMCA section 512 safe harbor protects service providers if a customer puts up copyrighted material as long as the service provider has the customer take it down for at least 10 days, if I recall correctly. But in this case it is the service provider puting up copyrighted work, so I don't think safe harbor DMCA provision applies. When Josh Wolf's video of G8 Demonstrations was aired without his permission on TV stations, he billed and got paid. It looks like billing as David Howell has and notices of contract suit is appropriate. I don't like to spend the time and effort to charge people, sue and so forth. But it seems that there's little incentive to not have this happen in the future otherwise. And a party stolen and infringed upon deserves compensation. -- Enric -======- http://www.cirne.com --- In [email protected], "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've placed a phone call to them and expect a call back first thing > > tomorrow morning (it's already 7PM in New York and it seems like the > > responsible party has gone home for the day). I'll be calling back > > first thing tomorrow if I don't hear. > > We'll take care of this to the best of our ability, just as we always > > have before. > > Mike, do you have that "best practices" sheet that we wrote up earlier > in the year? > we described what a videoblogger expects from a site... > > Jay > > -- > Here I am.... > http://jaydedman.com >
