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British Firm Claiming All Rights to GOP Convention Video on YouTube?

by MichaelTurk | September 10, 2008 at 6:43 PM
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When copyright protection goes too far, you get stuff like this.

Last night, I created and posted the video below to YouTube.  Immediately after processing, I received a notification from YouTube that ITN News, a British media company, has claimed all rights to footage of the Republican National Convention, and my video would be disabled unless I chose to pursue a denial of their claim.

No, there are two things to note.  First, the video was not obtained from ITN, but rather from C-Span.  Second, the video was used in accordance with C-Cpan's copyright policy here: http://rnc08.cspan.org/About/Copyright.aspx

So YouTube has effectively become the watchdog for ITN who is misusing the copyright process to a) prevent anyone from posting convention video and b) prevent anyone using video from another source for posting convention video.

 

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Go with eyeblast

Submitted by Freedoms Truth on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 12:34.

That's outrageous. It doesnt even pass the smell test. There were probably no less that 10-12 different media outlets recording that convention. Not to mention that you probably can get this right off RNC website. (Note to RNC media types: Maybe you need to keep copyrights to the convention footage, like the NFL does for their games.)

I think for the sake of others who want to do this, it would be good/needed to fight this and if YouTube doesnt handle this satisfactorily, we can make a righto-sphere stink about it.

When the Goolgeplex does their suspiciously one-sided and dumb things like this, its time to use another forum. Eyeblast.tv?

 

 

 

Damn straight!

Submitted by Big Ben 4 liberty on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 09:16.

My main problem with the Googleplex is that it has become dominated by the Google-Youtube-Facebook-Twitter unholy alliance.  We need to promte competitors to these internet mainstays to prevent from engaging in such sham tactics that are often done for reasons of political bias.

I have found Blip.tv to be very fair

Submitted by MichaelTurk on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 13:24.

I used Blip.tv for Fred Thompson's video and on a couple of other campaigns.  They've been very good and I've had no problem with this sort of thing.

For what it's worth, YouTube eventually removed the block and allowed the video to go online.  I pointed them to C-Span's copyright policy and pointed out that I left in all the C-Cpan logos so they would get the recognition they requested.

I have heard nothing further from ITN, so assume the case is settled.