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Youtube’s Content ID System Is a Playground for Swindlers

By ikat381 | Published: September 1, 2011

Some forms of copyright abuse, such as censoring free speech or stifling fair use, have a long and shameful history. But Youtube has given rise to a number of new incentives for making phony copyright claims. Lying about copyright can now lead to increased web traffic, licensing revenues, advertising dollars, and other business advantages. And [...]

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Help Fix YouTube’s Copyright School Fail

By elisa | Published: April 22, 2011

Our friends over at Public Knowledge are holding a remix video contest in response to last week’s, YouTube “Copyright School”. Meant to reform violators of uploaded infringements by educating and then testing them on YouTube’s copyright policy, the school also does a pretty good job of pushing fair use out of the picture. Literally. As [...]

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Vimeo’s Two-Faced Treatment of Remixers Suggests Ugly Corporate Plans for the Future

By ikat381 | Published: April 18, 2011

Vimeo seems to have a split personality when it comes to remixers. On the one hand, Vimeo’s community guidelines tell us that remixes are forbidden. The rules state that “you must own or hold all necessary rights (copyrights, etc.) to the videos” that you upload, and that “public domain videos are also prohibited.” This rule [...]

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We Are Creators Too

By elisa | Published: October 5, 2009

Public Knowledge has just released their new series of four video interviews called “We Are Creators Too” that focuses on artists who push the boundaries of copyright law. First to be featured was Nina Paley whose Sita Sings the Blues feature film (set to music from the Public Domain) reveals the timelessness of an old [...]

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Gay Marriage Storm Chasers

By jonathan | Published: May 2, 2009

Mary C. Matthews at VideoPancakes remixes the now infamous anti-gay marriage “gathering storm” ad by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). She combines it with footage from the Discovery Channel show Storm Chasers to create a promo for a new fictitious reality show called “Gay Marriage Chasers”. Over the past month, the ridiculous homophobic NOM [...]

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Dow Chemical Remixed

By jonathan | Published: September 5, 2008

All the Identity Correction videos posted below are remixing Dow Chemical’s recent series of TV ads and playing on the company’s rather twisted and ironic tag line “The Human Element”. Like many other corporations involved in ecological destruction and human rights abuses, Dow is currently running a multimillion dollar PR campaign trying desperately to re-brand [...]

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Episode II: Four More Years

By jonathan | Published: March 26, 2008

Another Star Wars themed remix found on youtube, this one taking the audio of Obi Won Kenobi’s famous monologue in A New Hope: Episode 4 where he explains The Empire to a young Luke Skywalker and mixing it with footage of the Bush Administration and it’s War in Iraq. Here also is another slightly different [...]

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Abuse of Power PSA

By jonathan | Published: March 26, 2007

A short anti-anti-piracy ad remix. ####

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