The End of Highlight Videos on YouTube?
EDSBS looks at a post from a blogger that had a YouTube video removed. He received a DMCA [?] complaint from YouTube stating “Collegiate Sports, LLC” claimed he was violating their copyright(s). His Sin? He posted a 15 second video clip of his buddy running around a beach. The video was tagged “florida” and “football” but there were no copyright infringements in the video. Just a friend shooting another at a beach.
It appears Collegiate Sports, LLC is firing off letters to anyone with suspicious tags and some videos have come down. A cursory look still shows plenty of videos with NCAA highlights in them, although some fans are noticing videos disappearing. Hopefully they won’t come after Jeff!
UPDATE: Comedy Central has started their scrub of YouTube. So long, YouTube. We hardly knew ya!
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Thanks for mentioning my post. Tiny correction: “Broward Beach” is really just a field on campus at UF. Not really a beach. One of those wacky-kid things that you keep saying once you’re an adult.
Thanks for mentioning my post. I hope more aggrieved YouTubers counter-notice under the DMCA. They wrote a law that lets us fight back, however weakly. Let’s do.
So, thanks again. By the way, I’m missing the Florida-Georgia game this weekend because some b-stard Michigan fan (a friend of my gf’s) scheduled his wedding this weekend. That sonofab-tch. O-H!
Panhandler - October 26th, 2006 at 10:37 pm - #
Oops. So I thanked you maybe a few too many times there. Gotta preview more; post less, ’specially when I start moving sentences around. Nutz!
Panhandler - October 26th, 2006 at 10:40 pm - #
Yikes!!
Here I am in the middle of making three new videos, when I spotted this post of yours.
Now I’m going to be looking over my shoulder for a while!
Jeff Seemann - October 26th, 2006 at 11:25 pm - #
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