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Google siding with derivative video over the original?
Google is known for its quick reactions to copyright claims, taking down videos from YouTube and Google video at the request of original copyright holders -- especially big players like TV networks. Recently, Paulo Ordoveza found one of his videos was the victim of one of these claims, and it was taken down from Google Video. The strange thing is that he had recorded his piece -- a time-lapse of some clouds -- back in 2006, way before it was used by Arianna Huffington's 23/6 Media as part of the infamous "Anonymous Message to Scientology" video. Paulo says the video is coming back up, but this incident still raises a bigger issue about the effectiveness of Google's automated copyright enforcement scheme, which uses "a program that analyzes similarities in audio or video between user videos and a library of reference content provided to us by copyright owners. When a video matches a reference file, that video is automatically disabled." Is a system like this adequate when it comes to independent authors who want to make a video freely available for use, avoiding any kind of aggressive copyright enforcement?
For the record, Paulo never had a problem with 23/6's use of the video, and he's a fan of Anonymous. 23/6 also never asked that the original video come down. You can compare the two videos for yourself: here's the original, and here's the Anonymous Message.
CORRECTION: Paulo writes in to correct a few things here. The original Anonymous Message was not done by 23/6, who actually made a later parody of that video. Also, the correct link for the clouds from 2006 is here. Thanks, Paulo!
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Paulo said 5:09PM on 5-25-2008
Just a couple of corrections I must point out: the Anonymous Message to Scientology was done earlier by someone else; 23/6's version was a later parody of the parody, addressed to Rudy Giuliani. Also, the timelapse video you linked to is a later time lapse I assembled last week from some weather webcam. The time lapses from 2007 which were used in Anonymous' video are here.
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Paulo said 5:09PM on 5-25-2008
Er, oops, correcting my correction, the time lapses from *2006* which were used in Anonymous' video are here: http://vimeo.com/1059091
Jay Hathaway said 5:13PM on 5-25-2008
Thanks, Paulo. I posted up a correction and changed the link. Good looking out!
asurroca said 10:43PM on 5-27-2008
And this is a good example of why they should only be taking videos down when they get DMCA complaints from copyright holders. Automated systems are bound to err and take down legitimate videos.
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