The worst thing about this whole thing is that they took my property away from me to put their ads on it, denying me ownership of my own creative work and forcing my viewers to view ads for products I have no interest in being associated with. Ads from which they profited.
They've made no attempt to return the profits they made from my work. It's worse than stealing, because not only did they take my creative property that I provided freely to the Internet, but they commercialized it and sold it and turned it into their commodity, and I was powerless to do anything about it. They only reversed their decision about maintaining ownership of my video when the public outcry forced them to go into damage control mode, after making an unknown sum of money off of me.
If a lawyer wants to represent me (I can't pay you), then please contact me on my youtube channel. I have a feeling that the moment the publicity dies down, they'll fall right back into their old tricks.
Oh, it's clearly fraud. The guy was profitting from my video until the internet backlash forced him to stop and remove the ads. This isn't over, there are a lot more people Rumblefish has done this to, and will continue to do this to, and as soon as the outcry dies down, I'm sure it'll be business as usual. Youtube's entire system seems to be designed to satisfy media companies rather than the users, which seems at odds with their slogan "Broadcast yourself". I'm going to have to scare away any birds when I make my next video so this doesn't happen again.
Thanks to the slashdot effect, Rumblefish has now released my video and their ads were removed!
It's good to know that these intellectual property management companies are capable of doing the right thing (when a ton of public scrutiny rains down on them). I got this message in my Youtube inbox:
"Hello, it's Paul Anthony...the CEO & Founder of Rumblefish.
Hey there. I just personally watched the video of yours that you posted about on Slashdot where you're picking and eating a wild salad. There is clearly no music in your video and I just got off of the phone with our tech lead who I asked to release the claim that was made by the YouTube system and associated with Rumblefish.
We're not sure why the song was ID'd. My apologies to you for the inconvenience that this has caused you. I'd like to help make that right for you in some way.
I have been spending the last several hours responding to posts on Slashdot and emails that countless people have sent to our email addresses b/c it's important to me and the team at Rumblefish that we always do right by content creators, the ones that we represent and the ones that we do not.
My apologies again and best of luck to you. If there's anything else that we can do to help make things right, please do let me know. Here's my email address: paul@rumblefish.com
All the best,
Paul Anthony
Founder & CEO, Rumblefish
Sent to: eeplox"
Slashdot Mirror
They've made no attempt to return the profits they made from my work. It's worse than stealing, because not only did they take my creative property that I provided freely to the Internet, but they commercialized it and sold it and turned it into their commodity, and I was powerless to do anything about it. They only reversed their decision about maintaining ownership of my video when the public outcry forced them to go into damage control mode, after making an unknown sum of money off of me.
If a lawyer wants to represent me (I can't pay you), then please contact me on my youtube channel. I have a feeling that the moment the publicity dies down, they'll fall right back into their old tricks.
http://www.youtube.com/user/eeplox
Oh, it's clearly fraud. The guy was profitting from my video until the internet backlash forced him to stop and remove the ads. This isn't over, there are a lot more people Rumblefish has done this to, and will continue to do this to, and as soon as the outcry dies down, I'm sure it'll be business as usual. Youtube's entire system seems to be designed to satisfy media companies rather than the users, which seems at odds with their slogan "Broadcast yourself". I'm going to have to scare away any birds when I make my next video so this doesn't happen again.
Thanks to the slashdot effect, Rumblefish has now released my video and their ads were removed! It's good to know that these intellectual property management companies are capable of doing the right thing (when a ton of public scrutiny rains down on them). I got this message in my Youtube inbox: "Hello, it's Paul Anthony...the CEO & Founder of Rumblefish. Hey there. I just personally watched the video of yours that you posted about on Slashdot where you're picking and eating a wild salad. There is clearly no music in your video and I just got off of the phone with our tech lead who I asked to release the claim that was made by the YouTube system and associated with Rumblefish. We're not sure why the song was ID'd. My apologies to you for the inconvenience that this has caused you. I'd like to help make that right for you in some way. I have been spending the last several hours responding to posts on Slashdot and emails that countless people have sent to our email addresses b/c it's important to me and the team at Rumblefish that we always do right by content creators, the ones that we represent and the ones that we do not. My apologies again and best of luck to you. If there's anything else that we can do to help make things right, please do let me know. Here's my email address: paul@rumblefish.com All the best, Paul Anthony Founder & CEO, Rumblefish Sent to: eeplox"