EFF Wants Your Viacom Stories, Too
Fred von Lohmann has a post and a video request for your stories of Viacom take-downs.
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Viacom Believes Fewer Than 60 Take-Down Mistakes
I’ve been e-mailing with Michael Fricklas of Viacom since I posted about Jim Moore’s home video that got caught in Viacom’s 100,000 take-down push on Friday. Mr. Fricklas wrote to me a few times during their process of assessing how many errors they made out of 100,000. Today, he wrote: “… we’re achieving an error … Read more
Another Video for the Put-Back-Up List?
As with Jim Moore’s video — now famous thanks to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing — you can decide for yourself whether Viacom’s cease-and-desist letter should have resulted in Jaegercat’s video being taken down at YouTube. In an e-mail from .sg, (which she said I could republish), Jaegercat writes: “My video ‘Beat Police’, an original … Read more
A Voice from Outside the US on the Viacom-YouTube Matter
“Jaegercat” writes in a discussion board on this topic: “I don’t live in the US. I’ve already responded with the counter-notification via fax, but I have no idea how to proceed from here if they don’t respond. The video that they pulled was an original work that took me around 5 months to make, that … Read more
What's the "Day 2" Story on the Viacom-YouTube Tussle?
Google News suggests that there have been about 500 stories so far written in this news sources that they scan on the topic of Viacom’s 100,000 take-down notices to YouTube users. Most of the stories focus on the business dynamics of the matter, understandably: 1) why Viacom did this; 2) the possibility (or likelihood, or … Read more
Community Organizing Around Takedowns
Jim Moore has reposted, on Google Video (heh), the “offending” work that prompted the nastygram from Viacom today. It’s hard to imagine what might have prompted the take-down. As JZ asks in the comments from an earlier post, what can we surmise about the tactic in getting to 100,000 take-downs? Was some bot scanning for … Read more
How Many Jim Moores Are Out There? Viacom's Cease and Desist Letters … for Home Videos?
Jim Moore has received a cease and desist letter from Viacom for a home video that he shot. (I love Jim, but the video’s pretty bad. Highly unlikely to be affecting any market that Viacom cares about, among other things.) The DMCA’s Section 512 has a provision that allows for counter-notification for people, like Jim, … Read more
Mobile ID Workshop Reports
For the reax and take-aways from today’s Mobile Identity workshop, see Berk-people Urs Gasser, Doc Searls, Dave Winer, among others. And if you’re in downtown San Francisco this evening (Friday, 1/26/07), swing by the Hotel Vitale for the Berkman West reception!
Interoperability and Innovation Research
Today, the Berkman Center joins Urs Gasser and all our friends from the University of St. Gallen in hosting a workshop on interoperability and innovation, in Weissbad, Switzerland. We are in the company of an interesting, eclectic group of technologists, academics, and NGOs leaders. The briefing papers are online. This workshop is one in a … Read more
Go Placeblogger!
Lisa Williams is off and running with Placeblogger. It’s a wonderful idea and will no doubt be a terrific service. And she’s started with a Top10 list of Placeblogs.