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Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright
Chris Knight writes "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. I 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. I just 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!"
Listen moron - you cannot take someone elses work and do anything with it unless the author of such work agrees to it. That is theft pure and simple. There is no such thing as "Fair Use" for any material. The only case of "fair use" on record is an owner of an LP is allowed to make a cassette tape copy of that work; this does not extend to CDs or DVDs.
What are you 12.
Viacom == rich powerful you == poor powerless you==FAIL Viacom==WIN That's George Bush's America. Any questions?
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I'm assuming since you just used the term "copywritten" that you're not a lawyer. I'm further assuming that you know jack shit about this are just talking out of your ass.