I agree with you Mike that Litigation is expensive and difficult, but honestly, heavy.com can afford to pay for back revenues they have generated. That's all I want.
In Web2.0 Land, part of the money-making scheme is having users populate a site with content to make the site "valuable". We have brought value to heavy.com and some sort of compensation should be asked for. It's the beginning of the year; perfect time for tipping over large monuments. Or rattling cages. Or just asserting the fact that what I do has some value to these companies. YOU BRING VALUE TO MULTIPLE WEB COMPANIES. Time to get paid when someone steps up and takes your value for granted. And then, with this money, maybe we could have a slush fund to help others. (Though I just want to give my part to blip.tv to pay for hosting for the last year!:) We are ripe for a beautiful lawsuit. One that will take these companies to task and make a new chapter in the Court of Copyright. This is trail-blazing stuff that can affect online video makers for the foreseeable future. I'm serious. I haven't had coffee yet, and I'm still ready to sue! (I hope this doesn't make me sound like a Sue-Happy American, I'm not really like that. I just think this is important to lock down.) Schlomo http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com On 1/4/07, Mike Hudack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Litigation is expensive and difficult. I've been on the phone with > them, and I'm hopeful that we can resolve this issue with simple > communication and without the need for lawyers. That said, if we have > to, we'll have our attorneys send them a nastygram. We're not at that > point yet, though. Soon, maybe. >
