Hitler is gunna be pissed!

[Diggles]

Youtube is starting to tighten up the copyright protection scanning and it appears they've killed all the Angry Hitler parodies. I cant wait til they get so much flak for taking Hitler videos down that they will have to cave on this.

Parody is one of the MAJOR applications of FAIR USE standards.

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[Slamz]

From the article I read, it's the copyright holder doing it, not YouTube.


I don't understand why copyright holders do this stuff. In YouTube's heyday, anytime I thought of some funny scene from just about any movie, I could probably find that specific scene on YouTube that someone had already uploaded. Now there's nothing except indie crap on there. Every clip from every TV show and movie gets taken off.

Seems to me it's free advertising. Weird Al attributed his popularity comeback to people uploading his old videos to YouTube. Maybe seeing the occasional clip from some movie, funny or otherwise, would be enough to spark interest.

I certainly don't see the harm in it unless people are uploading your entire work to YouTube.



In conclusion, TV and movie production companies are dumb. Even if they do have a case for copyright violation, it makes no sense for them to pull these things off of YouTube. Most of them are slapping down their own fans.

[Snowreap]

it might simply be their lawyers telling them "if people send a written request to upload clips, go ahead and allow it if you like, but if you continue to allow people to do so without a written request, you are effectively waiving the written-request-requirement, which then undermines our efforts elsewhere to fight real infringements."

similar to how a trademark holder can lose it if he doesn't actively protect it.

-ken