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- 6 February, 2007 -
- Convergence, Online Media, Technology -
- Tags : Convergence, Online Media, Technology
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has had many critics since it was enacted, but now the enforcement of it has to been taken to the extreme in recent days. Here’s two sample cases.
- The inventor of the dance the “Electric Slide” has begun filing DMCA take down notices to YouTube for every video with the Electric Slide in it and sent licensing demands to the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
- Viacom is serving YouTube with DMCA take down notices for any video slightly related to any show produced by Viacom. In the process some legitimate videos having nothing to do with Viacam have been purged, too by the copyright zealot.
The DMCA goes to the extreme in protecting the copyright holder and offers extreme penalties to organizations hosting the files in potential copyright violation forcing them into knee jerk reactions as seen by YouTube above. Unfortunately, everyone predicted this when Google paid an enormous amount of money for YouTube.
If you are interested in learning more about copyright law’s influence in innovation and copyright law’s manipulation by large corporations read something by Lawrence Lessig.
