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Copyright Claim Thwarts North Korean Propaganda
ianare writes "A propaganda video from the North Korean authorities has been removed from YouTube following a copyright claim by games maker Activision. It shows a space craft flying around the world and eventually over a city resembling New York. The buildings are then seen crumbling amid fires and missile attacks. However, the dramatic images (video) were soon recognized as having been lifted from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. By Tuesday, the video had been blocked, with a message notifying users of Activision's complaint shown in its place."
I claim North Korea for the MPAA!
I've seen tons of movies captured from videogames on YouTube. Isn't that fair use?
I had hoped that North Korea was spending a large percentage of it's budget on original computer graphics propaganda rather than it's actual weapons, but unfortunately I was wrong.
I don't like how easy it is for people to take down other peoples work, and lately we have seen a lot of that.
Though it is nice to see when the evil tool is used for good.
Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
Yeah! Silly North Koreans! Make your own darned cgi video of NY blowing up!
Can North Korea demand that YouTube take down any video clips of Kim Jung Il singing "I'm so Ronery" from Team America, as that is clearly an unauthorised reproduction of the Dear leader singing?
No one wins.
I have a friend who's a marine and we had a good laugh about the mock fighter jet the Iranians put out last week. I bet I'll have them on the floor when I show them this...
The media portrays Iran as this menacing threat. People in our military however tend to look at them as that kid who kicks sand in everyone's faces. Harmless, but annoying.
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North Korea has morphed into a Kardashian class nation, whereby it matters not "what" they're in the news for, so long as they're in the news....
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The video wasn't real? I mean, what kind of threat is that. Shameful.
Censoring by copyright, the law is working well for the masters.
However, not that one should like the North Korean proganda makers, but that is besides the point here.
WTF? Really We are the World that crappy 80's song so we give money to the starving people of Africa.
Oh I get it DPRK is starving and that's their way of saying please help us.
I'm sure there is a argument for that somewhere? Regardless of message, it is not just a clip of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
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The filthy American imperiocapitalist pigdogs at Activision and Google will be being exterminated with prejudice for this offense against glorious nation of Best Korea!
I agree with your post, but I really don't see the "Chilling Effects". It's not as if this is the first or a landmark case for DMCA abuses, shit, even scrolling down on the front page of Slashdot you will find another example used for personal persecution.
You are pretty much a retard aint ya? They stole video from the game, gave 0 credit and pretty much played it off as an Attack on another country. This was proper use of DMCA if there has even been one.
I hate to agree but I do.
While I certainly find NK despicable, I don't like how they are using copyrights, trying to make them seem more acceptable to us, by showing how they can attack someone we all don't like
North Korea has morphed into a Kardashian class nation
It already was: "Cardassian society is often depicted as being Orwellian, with strict government control over information and violent force. Denizens are shown as having unquestioning obedience to authority due to the general lack of human rights, which provides a contrast to the personal protections of the Federation."
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But it's not government censorship. It's Activision censorship.
Legally (by US law, at least) and morally, that makes it allowable. Governments can't stifle political dissent, morally. In a logical sense, it's a conflict of interest. That makes it unjust and immoral and thus at complete odds with the whole reason for government to exist.
But corporations aren't a first-party to political discourse, thus making their political censorship specifically not a conflict of interest. They don't have a direct interest in political points of view or judicial processes. Their interests are monetary.
All of these things are concepts that North Korea's government fails to grasp in any adequate manner. Unfortunately, the same thing applies increasingly to western governments as well. Oddly enough, China is improving in this regard, though it's not impossible to believe since there's a certain amount of "it can't get any worse" involved in their case. Russia went through similar modernization in the 90's when they finally decided to relax decades of stubborn refusal to make progress and joined the rest of the world in governing in a closer-to-sane manner.
Shutting down propaganda from an enemy (literally a hostile sovereign state in this case) is not censorship
Anyone notice the theme music in the video? A strangely sappy song to have playing for the nuking of New York.
Oh, and I'll bet they didn't get permission for the song either as well as the Activision video. Wait until the RIAA bills Dear Leader for eleventy billion dollars for lost revenue. That'll fix 'em.
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rediculous.
When I see NK doing testing with rockets I just get reminded of the family guy episode where Peter crashes the petercopter then the hindenpeter into Joe's front yard.
"How can you afford these things?!"
Isn't it covered by 'Fair Use'?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGxbOVscHPs
Kidnapping South Korean graphics designers to do an original animation. They have form in this regard, see here
You seem to regard science as some kind of dodge... or hustle.
So what exactly was the good which happened by taking down the video?
NK's Glorious Leader has changed his name to Duke Nukem.
Table-ized A.I.
For whoever is interested, North Korea signed Berne convention in 2003. Foreign author copyright has therefore a meaning for them.
Well, given the gaming reputation of the South Koreans, NK isn't really going to fool anyone down South, is it? If that was the target of their propaganda, that is -- SK would enjoy a huge laugh at NK's expense.
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Kim Jong-Un wrote Call of Duty himself, in an evening. Activision is the thief here, and they will feel the wrath of the Supreme Leader.
But corporations aren't a first-party to political discourse, thus making their political censorship specifically not a conflict of interest.
(ummm.. geeks feel the need to be precise even if irrelevant).
I don't think one cares if there is a conflict of interest or not if/when a corporation is capable of exerting censorship over a political speach
Shutting down propaganda from an enemy (literally a hostile sovereign state in this case) is not censorship
Is US at war with NK and nobody knows?
we are directed to a copy of the video... on YouTube??
Any way... where can I watch the video?
Youtube is a US company, using US laws. Sorry... I feel no sympathy for plagiarism (which is completely different from copyright infringement, btw).
No one is stopping them from producing their own content, and publishing it on a major US website. They can publish whatever they like.
Not being familiar with the game: was the video included as such with the game? As a cutscene, introduction or whatever?
Or was the video a recorded sequence of gameplay? If this is the case, is it right for the games company to have copyright on what I consider user-generated content? Does Notch now have a precedent to take down Youtube videos of Minecraft constructs?
It's easy to be all neener, neener in this particular case, but IMO we're seeing an abuse of the law here.
The old 'heroic corporation' trope.
I like how this is modded Troll. Murrikans find the truth about themselves offensive. They can dish it out endlessly, but as soon as foreigners depict their land aflame, they scream bloody murder.
My first thought was - great - we can save money and remove North Korea as a threat to world peace by employing lawyers to shut them down and save lots of money by reducing military forces.... but then... I got wondering... perhaps the lawyers cost more than battle fleets and jet planes and nuclear missiles? ;-)
It's at war with South Korea, which has a massive US military presence for support, so yes.
What about all the other game videos people put up? I smell bullshit.
Damn, I watched that two weeks ago.... It was a good video.
This is bad news for two reasons:
Boy, never thought I'd see myself defending North Korea about anything. Looks like in the North Korea vs. MPAA evilness matchup, MPAA wins . . .
Well you know, all NK needed to do was not use footage from someone else's game, and they could very easily have not become affected.
And presumably, they can render their own scene of New York burning, substitute it in, and post the very same video, and Activision couldn't say anything. So, this isn't some sort of blanket power of censorship, it is simply a statement that if you want to shout from a soapbox, maybe you should get your own.
Actually, the US is at war with North Korea and *everybody* knows.
The Korean War never ended officially, there was only an Armistice signed, not a Peace Treaty. We are *still* at war with North Korea and have been since the 1950's. The fact that the current situation simulates an actual peace hides the technical reality of the situation.
No way did this come out of North Korea. Anyone believing that is a dropkick.
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