08.31.07
You Violated My Pirated Copyrighted Material!
Found this ArsTechnica article on digg.com today:
“Viacom’s copyright battle with YouTube took an interesting turn this week, as the company has found itself in the embarrassing position of having highlighted the possibly that it committed a … copyright infringement of its own. Viacom effectively pointed the finger at itself when the company tried to get a Web Junk 2.0 clip removed from YouTube, only to end up exposing the fact that Viacom’s VH1 unit had not obtained permission to use the source video that is featured in the clip.”
Not only that, but it looks as if the entire Web Junk 2.0 series violates copyright because it takes clips from YouTube without permission of the original video owners or of Google, Inc., the owners of YouTube. Hey Viacom: take down yourself!
I plan on using this example in my class as I talk about copyright with students to highlight just why copyright is so confusing and why it really needs to be understood by them.
Just don’t see MY YouTube video 
