I just wrote a blog post about it here:
http://www.galacticast.com/2007/01/03/on-notice-myheavycom/
Here is a copy of the letter I sent to MyHeavy:
Subject: Notice of Copyright Infringement
Dear MyHeavy,
I wish to inform you that you have been illegally re-posting our
content on MyHeavy.com. Galacticast (http://www.galacticast.com) is a
web video show that is released under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/), which means:
1. Attribution â" There must be a link back to our original post
at Galacticast.com
2. Non-Commercial â" You may not make profit from
re-distributing our work (unless we have signed a pre-arranged
licensing agreement)
3. Share Alike â" Our content must be re-distributed under an
identical license.
MyHeavy has violated all three of the above clauses by not linking
to our site, profiting by banner ad sales placed before and during our
videos and by re-releasing our show under a âCopyright MyHeavyâ
license instead of the required identical Creative Commons license.
It has come to our attention that you have also infringed on the
copyrights of other web video producers using other web hosts (Blip TV
and Google Video) by re-posting their content without their knowledge.
Be assured that we have already informed everybody in the
Videoblogging community about this.
Please contact us to establish a licensing agreement. Otherwise,
take this as notice to remove our content immediately. We expect you
to reply directly to us ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or to Mike Hudack at
Blip TV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) within 24 hours.
Please note that a copy of this e-mail is being posted at
http://www.galacticast.com.
Regards,
Casey McKinnon
Executive Producer, Galacticast
Web: http://www.galacticast.com/
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: ###-###-####
--- In [email protected], "Casey McKinnon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I agree that we should blog about this, but I also feel they should
> not get the traffic... so perhaps we shouldn't link to them.
>
> I really wish we all had lawyers right now.
>
> Casey
>
> ---
> http://www.galacticast.com/
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "Jay dedman" <jay.dedman@> wrote:
> >
> > > Forget posting messages to MyHeavy, post your messages where the
> > > investors will see them.
> >
> > John is right.....everyone should blog about it.
> > this is your power.
> > this is also how we all can educate...
> > we can also point to these blog posts in future incidents.
> >
> > anyone have an old Veoh post when they were re-uploading videos to
> > their service?
> >
> > jay
> >
> >
> > --
> > Here I am....
> > http://jaydedman.com
> >
>
