If you click this link you we get to read one of the most bizarre copyright infringement cases by an international corporation. Basically a guy called Chris Knight produced a rather bizarre campaign video for his candidature for the Board of Education where he pitched himself by using the Death Star to blow up a little red schoolhouse.Viacom international then took his video from YouTube without asking for his permission and used it in the VH1 show Web Junk 2.0. He then posted a video on YouTube showing them using his video and was slapped down by Viacom and YouTube for breaching Viacom's copyright.
So just to summarise that, he produced a video, Viacom nicked it and used it, he posted their use of his video, and he's told he's breached their copyright. Can a corporation really copyright something that they themselves have nicked in the first place? Sanity reigns supreme in the world of digital rights as ever!
6 comments:
If this guy never infringes anyone's IPR when making his vids this will be a perfect example of unfair and abusive use of corporate power.
If he does scratch in copyright stuff to his work it might be a hilarious example of a corporation actually having a wicked sense of humour.
Oh, and deep pockets can help with that.
My understanding when you upload your work to YouTube is that you have copyright. Perhaps, Chris Knight should have complained to YouTube about his copyright infringement by Viacom? It's an interesting and odd one this, I'll be interested to see how it pans out.
No.
There is the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), which means you can email YouTube to inform them of a Terms of Use infringment on the basis cof DCMA.
You can patent or trademark an idea you have nicked - the originator needs to then fight the issued rights. Copyright, differently, vests automatically in the creator without registration.
However, the fact that Viacom are guilty of (some degree of) copyright infringement doesn't mean that they lose copyright in their adapted work - the segment from Web Junk 2.0.
So you have copyright in your article and I have copyright in this comment, even if it is based on your article. Weird and shitty, and massively insane.
Hilarious in this case. No one has starved. No one has lost any money. This whacko's ego is getting massaged. And Viacom are having a laugh.
You Tube should have told them to sod off and still could do so. Knight should complain to them.
Tell me all about 'abusive use of corporate power' chris paul.
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