The following story is to good to just pass a long. Imagine you create a video and upload it to Youtube. You do get some exposure and someday you realize that a tv show, in this case Web Junk 2.0 on VH1, played your video on their show without asking for your permission in first place.
You then decide to get a copy of that part of the show and publish it on Youtube again to be able to comment on it on your own blog. Guess what happens next ? Right, you get a takedown notice by the guys who took your video in first place without authorization.
Common sense tells me that this is wrong. I’m not a lawyer though and it might be a perfectly clear case but it sounds wrong. You do give Youtube the (non-exclusive) right to redistribute the videos without asking for your permission and it could be possible that Youtube has a deal with Viacom in place that allows them to pick videos for their show.
It could be. It still sounds wrong though. Below is the original clip, the other video was taken down unfortunately.
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Oh boy talk about that the multimedia industry shoot them self in the foot and the brain with one shoot! But don’t they say in USA that “money talks and bullshit walks”? I mean they want us to respect their property rights when they don’t do it themselves?