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  • On the post: Monkey Selfie Case Reaches Settlement — But The Parties Want To Delete Ruling Saying Monkeys Can't Hold Copyright

    Mark ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2017 @ 01:27pm

    I WANT THE TRUTH!

    Let the monkey take the stand! Was it even Naruto? Shapera is a better photographer! Get a good lawyer to cross examine the apes, cos the humans have no idea! ;-)

  • On the post: Thought Crime: UK Leadership Wants To Ban Predicted 'Extremists' From Social Media, TV, Events

    Mark ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2014 @ 01:46pm

    Masking the voice?

    I grew up in a time when voices of spokesman from Sinn Fein, the politcal wing of the IRA, were not allowed to be broadcast. Maybe we can just change the voices of any extremist organisation... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UhXivPyw4

  • On the post: Confusing Value And Price, Choir Demands £3000 Per Download

    Mark ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2013 @ 07:38am

    Free?

    Um, the MP3 is available as preview on the bleep.com website. The full 3min 15sec track. So just download it?

  • On the post: Monkeys Don't Do Fair Use; News Agency Tells Techdirt To Remove Photos

    Mark ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 01:41pm

    Reminds me of my daughter

    She spent the weekend at grandads with her cousin, and wanted all the tpys. They weren't hers, they were grandads who was sharing what he bought with his two grand-daughters.

    Caters are behaving like my three year old daughter, but with slightly less knowledge of current copyright law.

    Techdirt is like my 70 year old father in law.

    I'm not sure what bothers me most, a 'respected' law firm behaving like a 3-year-old, or my antiquated father-in-law being like techdirt ;-)

  • On the post: MLB Issuing Tons Of YouTube Takedowns; Don't Try To Share Your Love Of Baseball

    Mark ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2010 @ 07:22am

    Re: Re: NHL is only just starting, the FA have been doing it for ages.

    I found out from a few other UK football fans, when you buy a ticket you enter a agreement, that includes forbidding the use of video recording equipment within the stadium. So by recording on my phone, I'd already broken that.

    Because the stadium is private premises, the club and the league set down the rules :-(

  • On the post: MLB Issuing Tons Of YouTube Takedowns; Don't Try To Share Your Love Of Baseball

    Mark ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2010 @ 01:45pm

    NHL is only just starting, the FA have been doing it for ages.

    I was back in the UK and went to a football (soccer) game with my brother (Crystal Palace vs QPR for the Brits who read this). We're top of the league for the first time since the 60's and the atmosphere at the end of the game once we won was electric. So I pulled out my iPhone and shot 30 seconds of the fans singing. A special moment for me and my brother and something I wanted to share. So I posted to who YouTube so I could share with my Dad and a few other QPR fans.

    Within 2 hours the video had been taken down and I'd been given my second copyright notice by YouTube. Third strike and my account would shut down, which really worries me cos is my YouTube account my Google account? My Gmail, analytics, docs, everything?

    I hadn't filmed a game. I hadn't shown anyone recognisable. My only crime was recording and publishing video from a football stadium. Isn't that fair use? I hadn't got footage of goals, just fans singing, and I was one of them.