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Viacom Sued Over YouTube Parody Removal

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the turnabout-still-fair-play dept.

A self aware computer input device writes "Just a week after Viacom sued Google over copyrighted material, MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave New Films LLC have sued Viacom claiming the cable network company improperly asked the video-sharing site YouTube to remove a parody of the network's 'The Colbert Report.' Couple this with the iFilm fiasco reported earlier, and you have to question how a company like Viacom can cry foul when it can't even accurately account for its own copyrighted material."

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  1. Fowl! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Couple this with the iFilm fiasco reported earlier, and you have to question how a company like Viacom can cry fowl when it can't even accurately account for its own copyrighted material.

    Maybe they're trying to confuse their opponents, so they'll start looking for chickens and turkeys or something?
  2. They can cry fowl, yeah, sure by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    They are chicken. So they cry fowl [sic].

    Hate to be the spelling police but at some point, even I cry fowl [sic].

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    1. Re:They can cry fowl, yeah, sure by nightsweat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Why is your fowl sic? Does your chicken have bird flue? Doesn't it get drafty?

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  3. Oookay by OverlordQ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why dont people learn to just foot the bandwidth bill themselves so they have control over it.

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  4. My thoughts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't know about you guys but I am excited by these new developments. Advances like what has happened here could change the world forever. Artificial intelligence is quite interesting and it is amazing that strong AI has been developed and input devices can finally be self-aware. Be better if the spelling wasn't so fowl though.

    So when do I get my sexy female robot? :)

  5. subject to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Someones' crying fowl
    A Flock Of Seagulls above
    Hey you! Don't look up.

  6. Re:Fowl by GFree · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude, is there like a prize for the "Pun of the Century" on Slashdot or something?

  7. My apologies to my Fowl-ow slashdotters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now I understand. It isn't you guys who don't know the difference between lose and loose, between road and rode, between to, too, and two, or fowl and foul.

    Cowboy Neal and Taco and the other illiterate /. editors are editing!

    News for illiterates, stuff it (matter). How in the hell a nerd like me (and you) got sucked into this den of illiteracy, stupidity, and double digit IQs I'll never know. Oh wait; it must be the (+5, funny) that got us here!

    Neal, go back to the first fucking grade, moron.

    </Squawk>

  8. Re:Editing still apparently optional on /. by Don_dumb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Strange, I wondered why the tag 'fowl' was there because when I looked at the summary it states 'cry foul'.

    Must have been a quick edit.

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  9. Re:Fowl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My God! That was the most unbearably punny thing I've ever seen.

    Posting this AC cos I'm chicken...

    *ducks*

  10. Re:Fair use is subjective by Don_dumb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Parodies of parodies never work. The whole idea of a (comic) parody is that it shows the funny nature of something that is serious. Trying to show another funny side of something that is already intentionally humorous is just pointless.

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  11. sp0n=ge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    share. FreeBSD is Asnything can perform keeping MOVIE [imdb.com]

  12. shit?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    consist3nt wi7h the