http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NIYtxLjgzM
It's basically the music video for Lone Star's "Amazing" with a few modifications, like inserting photos of the creator's girlfriend. The beginning of the music video gives the information on who wrote the song, who produced the song, and under what label the album can be found under. The person who uploaded the video didn't create it for educational purposes, but used it for entertainment purposes. The material looked pirated, and I doubt that Lone Star granted permission for their music video to be used in this way, and that the video creator asked for that permission. The video creator may have used the video as an assignment for an editing class. But I doubt it. But, YouTube still has it up... So I guess my question is does YouTube view this as an artistic creation, that is covered under intellectual reserve or something? Because it's still up, and I've personally tried to look for Eagles songs on the internet, and some I can find, and some I can't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cLEgPeE6mU&feature=related
This video is a montage of clips from the hit comedy "The Office." The clips were obviously put together by a fan of the show. But Here I am at the same question that I had on the other clip. If YouTube feels like it can stay up on their website, is it legal? does NBC care if the creator of the video is violating copyright? I feel like I'm really not good at even knowing where to look for someone violating copyright. One good thing; the guy does cite the source, he gives full credit to NBC in the video description. Maybe I'm making this harder than it has to be. .
You found two really good examples, and your analysis of their copyright usage is great. Youtube is just as beholden to copyright law as any other entity, however, it has so many uploads per day that it just can't keep up with monitoring, though they do try. My guess is that eventually both of these videos will be taken down by youtube, or, sometimes they will make you put an ad for buying a song or whatever on your video. Some artists have special agreements with youtube that instead of taking something down, they just have to advertise for them.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you're very aware of copyright law. Good job!