TheKnightShift - Slashdot User

Comment My God, this country is completely screwed (Score 4, Insightful) 375

by TheKnightShift on Thursday August 07, 2008 @05:12PM (#24516641) Attached to: McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments

This is beyond pathetic. To think that a nation that produced the likes of John Adams, Daniel Webster and Oliver Wendell Holmes is now producing "leaders" who not only can not think and speak so articulately, but have to bribe their supporters with swag for copying and pasting soundbites... No, I'm not an Obama supporter either. I don't have a dog in this hunt.

Submission + - Viacom yields to YouTuber who DMCA counteclaimed (theregister.com)

Submitted by

Jason the Weatherman

on Thursday September 13, 2007 @02:35PM

Jason the Weatherman writes: "Two weeks ago Viacom charged Christopher Knight with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a clip from Web Junk 2.0 on VH1 that featured Knight's zany school board commercial. Here's the Slashdot article about it. Two days ago YouTube reported to Knight that his clip was back up and that his account wouldn't be punished. What happened? Knight filed a DMCA counter-notification claim with YouTube: something that happens "all too rarely" according to Fred von Lohmann at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in this story at The Register. "Almost no one ever files a counter notice. That's the biggest problem we've encountered [with DMCA claims on sites like YouTube]. Most people have no idea that right exists." As a result Viacom caved and Knight has his video back. But instead of gloating about his victory, Chris Knight posted on his blog that he holds nothing against Viacom for what happened, wanting this to mean that he and Viacom get to "shake hands and move on and wishing each other well" and that he doesn't want anyone else holding this against Viacom either. What a great attitude!"

Submission + - "Viacom hit me for infringing my own copyright (blogspot.com) 2

Submitted by

Chris Knight

on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @02:23PM

Chris Knight writes: "Long story short: I ran for school board where I live this past fall and created some TV commercials including this one with a "Star Wars" theme. A few months ago VH1 grabbed the commercial from YouTube and featured it in a segment of its show "Web Junk 2.0". Neither VH1 or its parent company Viacom told me they were doing this or asked my permission to use it, but I didn't mind it if they did. It was great to see the commercial was being enjoyed by a far wider audience than I'd expected. I was honored that they chose to use it and thought that Aries Spears's commentary about it was pretty hilarious, so I posted a clip of VH1's segment on YouTube so that I could put it on my blog. This morning I got an e-mail from YouTube saying that the video has been pulled because Viacom is claiming that I'm violating its copyright. Viacom used my video without permission on their commercial television show, and now says that I am infringing on THEIR copyright for showing the clip of the work that Viacom made in violation of my own copyright! Talk about chutzpah! Needless to say, I would like to fight this: not for any kind of monetary compensation, but just for the right to employ my own self-created material per Fair Use."

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