YouTube copyright infringement thread

[Tim Vasquez]

I can't help thinking that we might actually be approaching an age where a few people begin doing this:

1. Shoot high-adrenalin storm video.
2. Register the copyright.
3. "Leak" it online as bait for the YouTube kiddies.
4. Await the appearance of the inevitable 46 copies on YouTube.
5. The poster would then use means to identify all the YouTube posters, find the ones who have money or whose parents have money, sue them, then settle for a healthy sum.

Not that I am advising this at all, but I have a feeling this will happen. Admittedly this is a hybridized version of what the patent sharks and the RIAA mills do.

Even if you take the honorable route, it seems it's absolutely essential these days to register your copyright. You probably won't go after the YouTube kiddie but you may find your video with, say, a ebaumsworld logo and unable to get them to take it down. That copyright registration may really be your only recourse.

Of course the alternative is to just not release your video at all or watermark it like mad.

Tim

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

What's grown a bit annoying to me is the number of sites that take your youtube video and post them on theirs....with ads plastered all over the pages....getting revenue off your video. Sure I'm not getting any off the video myself, and I could do the same with videos of others if I wanted. I don't know what it is, but it just feels like you're being used. This is another reason to plaster that copyright notice all over the video....at least maybe get some traffic.

To see what I mean put(with quotes) "big storms of tornado alley" into a google search.

It doesn't bug me if some blog or chaser just wants to put it up. For some reason I'm bugged when it's obvious the sites are just there to create their own revenue off others videos. It's probably silly to feel this way, but it's just annoying.

 

[Dan Robinson]

There is an option on YouTube to disable embedding on each video, which keeps that from happening. YouTube still gets their ad revenue though when people view the video directly.

 

[cedwards]

Mike, you can select if you want to allow embedding of your Youtube video on other sites. Of course, there is no stopping someone from copying it onto their own site and showing it wherever they feel like it.

OK. Dan beat me to it.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Yeah I know, but then I can't embed it on my own site. I could always link it though. Not a big deal, just annoying in some instances is all.

 

[Danny Neal]

Compilation of stolen videos, I apologize if I do not name everyone involved as it was just a quick glance.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HzZK65IKe2A --- Bill Hark mostly

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RHYl90ZR5o4 --- Charles Edwards

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RS3hFexxa4Q

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dtHzJLgxmO4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jB-aQZ2RpTQ

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LIDb_lq_oGg ---- Doug's

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uKFxUWlxfz0 -Reed

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o231V5bYQrI

http://youtube.com/watch?v=owAjL7iwEco - Reed

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XEW5UCIMyrQ

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uh7v-SuDWOg - Reed

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YiRGxZ6GjMk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FuLLRD4w3NA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FuLLRD4w3NA - H's pic as cover page

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y3o-4UVLjyk

***IF your account is on here and it is your video and I claimed it as stolen, I apologize, I checked with a couple others before I posted and we came to this solution so far....It is amazing what the simple search of "tornado" on Youtube will pull up***

Any updates with these? I was scanning a few and noticed they were still up?

 

[Doug_Kiesling]

Ok, at least one of the videos that Dick posted about has been removed from YouTube. But I found this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XNAHm8NoyI

And I posted Wow, another video you ripped off my web site."

His answer, "U allowed DL. ur fault"

I sent another request to YouTube to delete this and told them that everything on his account is copyrighted material that he ripped off and uploaded.

 

[Doug_Kiesling]

Ok on a hunch, I put the kids YouTube account name Hellafireleli, into google and now I found that he has been posting some of the same videos to other video sharing sites.

http://www.gaiagonewild.com/hellafireleli/public/

This is almost worth trying to track down the kid to see if they live in the USA and send the lawyer after them.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

lol - if you allow the download, then it's your fault when I take your stuff ...

That's like saying - you left your keys under the mat, so it's your fault I stole your TV.

 

[Steve Miller]

Okay, here's a youtube question:
In Blogger, authors now have the ability to display youtube videos in their menu system and have them play on their blog. These can be random videos or they can be selected by search term (although youtube still searches out and posts random videos with the tagline specified).
Right now I have the search words: "Storm Chaser" and "Tornado" and videos are cued on the right hand side of my blog. These videos are not mine and I, of course, would never lay claim to them but they are on my blog.
Is posession still 9/10 of the law in this case? I doubt I will keep this element as part of my blog but I'm interested in what others think.

Opinions?

 

[David Schuttler]

lol - if you allow the download, then it's your fault when I take your stuff ...

That's like saying - you left your keys under the mat, so it's your fault I stole your TV.

Or you left your home wifi un encrypted, so it's your fault I borrowed your signal

 

[Jeff Duda]

I can't find the other thread that I thought was the main thread, so I'm posting here.

Might wanna check this video for stolen clips:

I saw at least one name I recognize.