Possibly The Most Ridiculous DMCA Take Down Yet
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/05/possibly-the-most-ridiculous-dmca-take-down-yet
The anonymity of the internet can bring out the worst in people. You are bound to run into someting you don't like eventually. And what do you do if you find something you don't like on the Internet? You send a notice to the DMCA to get it taken down. Of course, because this is the internet, even the notices sent to the DMCA can be fake.
“Scorpio Music sent a letter to Yahoo (presumably a DMCA notice) that stated a video created by Loren Feldman infringed on copyrighted material they control. The alleged infringement is over the use of the YMCA song by the Village People.” (Michael Arrington)
The video though, doesn’t actually play the song anywhere in it. Instead, the issue is that a a puppet sings one line of the song. Actually, I watched the video (found here on YouTube) and the puppets never actually sing the song. They say the letters “YMCA” in a tune (that is not quite the same as the original). Its safe under fair use.
Yeah.
What.
Yahoo takes down the video and Feldman gets an email from them reminding him that they can terminate his account. Wow, excessive much?
What I want to know is how Yahoo processes DMCA notices. How do they check to see if a DMCA claim is valid?
Interesting how much criticism Yahoo has been getting lately. I would have thought that Yahoo would have started to take closer look at things before jumping all over DMCA notices and angering their users given the past circumstances with a certain Chinese blogger.
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The anonymity of the internet can bring out the worst in people. You are bound to run into someting you don't like eventually. And what do you do if you find something you don't like on the Internet? You send a notice to the DMCA to get it taken down. Of course, because this is the internet, even the notices sent to the DMCA can be fake.
“Scorpio Music sent a letter to Yahoo (presumably a DMCA notice) that stated a video created by Loren Feldman infringed on copyrighted material they control. The alleged infringement is over the use of the YMCA song by the Village People.” (Michael Arrington)
The video though, doesn’t actually play the song anywhere in it. Instead, the issue is that a a puppet sings one line of the song. Actually, I watched the video (found here on YouTube) and the puppets never actually sing the song. They say the letters “YMCA” in a tune (that is not quite the same as the original). Its safe under fair use.
Yeah.
What.
Yahoo takes down the video and Feldman gets an email from them reminding him that they can terminate his account. Wow, excessive much?
What I want to know is how Yahoo processes DMCA notices. How do they check to see if a DMCA claim is valid?
Interesting how much criticism Yahoo has been getting lately. I would have thought that Yahoo would have started to take closer look at things before jumping all over DMCA notices and angering their users given the past circumstances with a certain Chinese blogger.
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