YouTube Flags Democrats' Convention Video on Copyright Grounds. While First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech won rave reviews on Twitter Tuesday night, those who got inspired to try to watch the livestream of the convention on BarackObama.com or YouTube found the video flagged by copyright claims shortly after it finished.
YouTube, the official streaming partner of the Democratic National Convention, put a copyright blocking message on the livestream video of the event shortly after it ended, which was embedded prominently at BarackObama.com and DemConvention2012. Would-be internet viewers saw a message claiming the stream had been caught infringing on the copyright of one of many possible content companies: This video contains content from WMG, SME, Associated Press (AP), UMG, Dow Jones, New York Times Digital, The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA), Warner Chappell, UMPG Publishing and EMI Music Publishing, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. Sorry about that. Dexter – Le scandale ! Mon Dieu qu'ils sont cons !
Comme il le raconte dans cet article, ce fan de la série Dexter est tellement dégouté qu'il piratera probablement la prochaine saison plutôt que d'acheter les DVD. En effet, après avoir acheté le coffret de la saison 6 qu'il se faisait une joie de regarder, il a inséré le premier DVD dans son lecteur et a du se taper sans pouvoir les passer ou les accélérer, les pubs anti-piratage ainsi qu'une jolie publicité pour Showtime (la chaine de TV qui diffuse la série). Déjà ça, ça peut ennerver, mais c'est un grand classique.
Document sans nom. Alors que les trois frères décident en 1946 de faire un nouveau film qui deviendra A Night In Casablaca, les Frères Warner, qui avaient produit en 1942 le film Casablanca avec Humphrey Bogart et Ingrid Bergman, les menacent d’intenter une action en justice.
Groucho décide alors de leur répondre par cette lettre : Chers Frères Warner, Apparemment, il y a plus d’une manière de conquérir une ville et de la maintenir sous sa domination. YouTube, je t’emmerde « Le bloc-notes de Gee. Ceux qui suivent mon Identi.ca/Twitter le savent, je viens de clôturer mon compte YouTube.
Après 1h40 de retard de la SNCF et un dégât de eaux digne du Titanic dans mon appart’ hier, j’ai eu la bonne surprise ce matin de découvrir ce mail fort sympathique : Bonjour ptilouk,La vidéo "Super Mariobi-Wan Kenobros" peut présenter du contenu concédé sous licence par FOX ou lui appartenant. Elle a donc été bloquée sur YouTube.Cette réclamation a une incidence négative sur l’état de votre compte. Pour en savoir plus sur les règles appliquées à votre vidéo, consultez la page Notification pour atteinte aux droits d’auteur.Cordialement, - L’équipe YouTube Tiens donc !
Une de mes vidéos parodiant Star Wars avec les bruitages de Super Mario a été bloquée suite à une plainte de la Fox. Le blog résumant les épisodes de Plus Belle La Vie cesse ses activités. Le blog PBLV-Resumes59.com, spécialisé dans la diffusion de résumés (écrits) des épisodes de Plus Belle La Vie, s’arrête.
L’auteur vient en effet de publier un message d’ « au revoir » à ses lecteurs, cédant sous la pression de Telfrance Série, qui détient les droits de la série. Le tort de ce blog hébergé chez Overblog ? Utiliser les noms PBLV et Plus Belle La Vie, afficher quelques images de la série et diffuser quelques publicités. A Big Victory For Fair Use Via South Park, What What (In The Butt), Numa Numa, Afro Ninja, Et Al. A couple years ago, we wrote about the bizarre case filed by Brownmark Films, who produced the "viral" video "What, What (In The Butt)," against South Park for doing a parody of the video.
The show had actually licensed the song, but the producers claimed that they should have also licensed the video, which is separate from the song (thus, the "singer" was not a part of the lawsuit). Viacom and South Park argued that this was clear parody and fair use and the district court not only agreed, but dumped the lawsuit without a trial on the fair use claim. Some copyright maximalists like to claim that fair use is only a defense to infringement, and thus can only be raised at trial, not earlier in the process.
Il pirate 300 000 fois et Hollywood ne peut rien dire. Tendre histoire que celle racontée par le magazine M du journal Le Monde, et mise en ligne ce week-end (en fait une reprise non sourcée d'un reportage du New York Times).
Quantitativement parlant, Hyman Strachman fait très certainement partie des pires pirates des Etats-Unis. That sinking feeling: will Titanic copyright claim go down without a trace? Princess Samantha's claim is handwritten and her 'brief description of the complaint' runs to 15 pages.
Stephen Fry joins The Hobbit pub's fight with Hollywood. The battle between Hollywood and The Hobbit gained an unexpected new recruit as the British performer Stephen Fry threw his weight behind a campaign to save an imperiled Southampton public house.
Fry, who is currently shooting his role as the Master of Laketown in Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptation, criticised an attempt by the production's lawyers to force the pub to change its name. "Sometimes I'm ashamed of the business I'm in," he tweeted. "What pointless, self-defeating bullying. " The Hobbit pub in Portswood, Southampton, which serves bespoke cocktails named after JRR Tolkien's characters, has been given until the end of May to change its name or face costly legal action.
Le piratage de pornos bientôt légal aux USA ? The Home Video Prince Doesn't Want You to See. A bouncing YouTube baby has be-bopped his way right into the legal cross-hairs of the pop star Prince, sparking a lawsuit that could test the boundaries of U.S. copyright law.
Holden Lenz, 18 months old, is the pajama-clad star of a 29-second home movie shot by his mother in the family's rural Pennsylvania kitchen and posted last February on the popular video site YouTube. In the video, the child is seen bouncing and swaying for the camera, as, faintly, the Prince hit "Let's Go Crazy" plays on a CD player in the background. Twenty eight people, mostly friends and family, had viewed the YouTube video by June, when mom Stephanie Lenz said she received an e-mail from YouTube informing her that her video had been removed from the site at the request of Universal Music Publishing Group, the recording industry's largest label, and warning her that future copyright infringements on her part could force the Web site to cancel her account. 'Frightened, Then Angry' Can You Keep Up With Everyone Suing Over How Avatar 'Stole' Its Story? Thanks to the rise of "ownership society" where intellectual property maximalists like to push the concept that you can "own" ideas, any time there's a remotely successful book, movie or TV show, we hear about lawsuits from people insisting that the idea for the story was "stolen.
" Of course, almost none of these have any merit whatsoever. However, when it comes to the movie Avatar, it seems like the movie didn't just break box office and overall revenue numbers -- it's breaking records with lawsuits from people trying to get a piece of the action as well. In the past we've written about multiple different lawsuits against James Cameron over where the story came from.
Most of these were pretty laughable -- just people who had written stories with vague plot similarities. However, they keep coming. Not sure why it's all happening now, but three new lawsuits have been filed from people claiming that the Avatar story was "stolen. " Un minutieux montage des JT de Pernaut censuré au nom du droit d'auteur. Louis Vuitton attaque Warner Bros en contrefaçon. On connaît beaucoup de plaintes assez grotesques en matière de protection de la propriété intellectuelle, mais celle-ci devrait facilement rejoindre le palmarès.
Louis Vuitton a déposé plainte contre Warner Bros en contrefaçon (ce qui en soit est une douce ironie), parce que le producteur a osé utiliser un faux sac Louis Vuitton dans une scène de son film Very Bad Trip 2. Dans le film, l'usage d'un faux était un effet comique recherché par les scénaristes. Alan, le personnage joué par Zach Galifianakis, est un homme totalement inepte dans les relations sociales, qui a aussi un goût tout particulier de la mode.
Lorsqu'il porte avec lui un sac ressemblant à un Louis Vuitton, le spectateur se doute qu'il s'agit d'un faux. D'où cette scène dans laquelle il demande à un ami de faire attention lorsqu'il prend son sac et le jette par terre : "Attention, c'est... c'est un Louis Vuitton". Louis Vuitton porte plainte contre Warner Bros pour Very Bad Trip 2. Very Bad Trip 2 –la suite de Very Bad Trip qui en plus d'être l'un des films les plus piratés de 2011 a aussi fait un carton au box office– attire les soucis judiciaires, rapporte le Guardian. Louis Vuitton a décidé de porter plainte contre Warner Bros, qui a produit le film, à cause d'une scène dans laquelle Alan, le personnage légèrement excentrique joué par Zach Galifinakis, cite la marque en disant à propos d'un bagage: «Attention, c'est un Louis... C'est un Louis Vuitton.»
Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story. Though the slip up that caused Night of the Living Dead to lapse into the public domain is most likely the best-known case of copyright affecting horror movies, it is far from the only nor is it the first. The truth is that copyright has been creating havoc with horror movies for as long as there have been horror films, all the way back to at least 1922, when the estate of Bram Stoker, the author of the original Dracula novel, took an upstart video company that made an unlicensed adaptation of the book. This battle not only helped shape horror movie history, but it is also something of a vampire tale unto itself. How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie. Even if you aren’t a horror movie fan or have never seen a zombie film, you’ve probably at least heard of “The Night of the Living Dead”. It serves as the seminal modern zombie flick and a movie that, single-handedly, changed horror movies forever.
How Universal Re-Copyrighted Frankenstein’s Monster. Previously this month, we talked about how a copyright blunder led to Night of the Living Dead being released into the public domain and how a copyright dispute nearly led to the destruction of Nosferatu, now regarded as one of the best early vampire films and created much of the modern vampire lore. However, this week’s post is a bit of a twist. Rather than it being the tale of something falling out of copyright or a copyright dispute nearly destroying it, we’re talking about how a movie studio, namely Universal, managed to effectively re-copyright a previously public domain creature: Frankenstein’s Monster (Note: For those who are unclear, Frankenstein is the last name of the doctor, the monster has no name.)
How did this happen? Man Sues Claiming 'Hangover II' Ripped Off His Life Story (Exclusive) Was The Hangover Part II inspired by the tale of an American who experienced a rocky honeymoon in Asia? Germany bans Beyonce video over underwear copyright claim (video) - THR, Esq. We're not sure what's more scintillating — that a German court has banned Beyonce's video for "Video Phone" because she is wearing copyrighted underwear or that in defending the video, Sony tried to invoke Pablo Picasso. A Munich District Court has ruled that the black-and-white cubist-pattern print undergarment (right) violates the intellectual property of underwear manufacturer Triumph.
As a result, Judge Peter Guntz said the highly original bra deserves — pardon our translation — "a very broad scope of protection" and has ordered the video be stripped off television. Triumph claimed copyright after holding a design contest. LucasFilm use de la Force du droit d'auteur contre Greenpeace. Il est rare qu'une publicité soit si réussie qu'elle devienne aussi rapidement l'objet de détournements parodiques. C'est ce qui arrive à la publicité pour la Passat de Volkswagen, dans laquelle un jeune garçon se déguise en Darth Vader et croit utiliser les pouvoirs de la Force pour animer la voiture. Diffusée la première fois au cours du Super Bowl, en février dernier, la publicité a depuis fait le tour du monde et a été vue plus de 40 millions de fois sur Internet.
Elle a aussi été détournée... pour attaquer Volkswagen. Greenpeace reproche au constructeur automobile Volkswagen de s'opposer à l'adoption de politiques européennes de revalorisation des objectifs de réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et d'adoption de normes énergétiques plus strictes pour les véhicules. Mais la parodie n'a pas plu au groupe LucasFilm, propriétaire des droits des films de George Lucas, qui a demandé et obtenu son retrait sur YouTube. Star Wars: the Hearing. Last week during a three-day hearing, the ’s Supreme Court turned its attention to copyright law – for the first time since its metamorphosis from House of Lords to Supreme Court. Mike Tyson Tattoo Artist Sues Warner Bros. to Stop Release of 'Hangover 2'
The man who gave Mike Tyson his distinctive facial tattoo has sued Warner Bros. over the similar-looking facial art on Ed Helms' character in the upcoming The Hangover: Part II. S. Victor Whitmill, an award-winning tattoo artist who calls the Tyson design "one of the most distinctive tattoos in the nation," is asking for an injunction to stop the release of the highly-anticipated comedy sequel, set to bow in the U.S. over Memorial Day weekend. "When Mr. Whitmill created the Original Tattoo, Mr Tyson agreed that Mr. Warner Bros. Settles 'Hangover II' Tattoo Lawsuit (Exclusive) Warner Bros. Fans of The Hangover Part II can breathe easier: The tattoo on Ed Helms’ face is staying in the film.
Warner Bros. has settled the lawsuit brought by Missouri tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill over the mark on Helms’ face, which Whitmill claimed infringed a copyrighted tattoo he created for boxer Mike Tyson. Hitler parody videos latest copyright fight. Copyright on the Schindler List ? New Lawsuit Seeks to Expose Truth Behind 'Catfish' - THR, Esq. Ever since Catfish premiered at Sundance in January, the documentary has engendered controversy. Made for just $30,000, it grossed more than $3 million and has left audiences scrambling to figure out whether the amazing story being told is just an elaborate hoax. We might get an answer to that question, thanks to a lawsuit filed today in U.S. Sussex cops try to suppress publication of damning traffic-cam photos by claiming copyright. Cory Doctorow at 11:24 pm Tue, Jul 21, 2009.