RSSYouTube Forced to Delete 30,000 Clips
By the Betanews Staff | Published October 20, 2006, 11:30 AM
A group of Japanese content providers has been successful in getting YouTube to remove some 29,549 clips that it claimed were posted without permission, it said Friday. The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers represents 23 media companies in the country. The group is also calling on the video sharing site to better screen what its users are posting.
In addition to pushing for more stringent oversight, the group also called on the site's users to refrain from posting copyrighted material. YouTube serves more than 100 million videos per day, and content providers have become increasingly vocal in attempting to push the service to better control what its users are posting.
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|This has nothing to do with the post and you are putting the link everywhere. Stop using these forums for self-publicity.
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|IFILM.com is the place to go.
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|Probably clips of all the crazy gameshows they have over there. And Hard Gay.
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|people are sharing pictures and personal clips of stuff they're interested in?
OMG
just think of how many people are dying from this epidemic.
we must stop people from sharing what they see or hear before the world comes to an end!
:-p
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|Ya gotta wonder.
They don't mention what was pulled, ut based on what I've seen of Youtube, it likely wasn't full eps and such.
Also: Aren't "clips" considered by most law abiding folks as falling under the protection (such as it is) of Fair Use?
It's working great for LOST websites. Miss a specific scene or effect? Someone will post that scene on Youtube. Guaranteed. It was funny. The first 10 minutes of Season 3 episode 1 appeared within moments of it airing.
I suppose that's patly ABC's fault, actually, they hyped "the first 5 minutes" so much.. If ya missed it, you'd be, uh...lost. ;)
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|If the Japanese were pushing for it, you can assume that they were probably full episodes of Anime shows. My friends watch full episodes of subtitled Anime on YouTube all the time, because they don't want to wait to find out what happens on the dubbed american versions.
Also, the other day. I was trying to watch the new episode of South Park but every other clip I tried said it was removed for copyright infringment.
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|They're lucky it wasn't a Tsunami of lawsuits demanding cash.
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|It's because they were just bought by Google who have an army of lawyers and billions of dollars in cash for such things.
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|Which is my point..
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|It's not like the Japs have anything worth viewing anyways. People are too sue happy these days. F'in douches.
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|Thanks for sharing your derogatory comments Archie Bunker.
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|Just what the heck were the Japanese asking YouTube to remove??
A bunch of Yatta clips???
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|More than likely japanese anime, porn and clips of the nintendo wii.
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|Maybe it was clips of Hentai? They may not want outsiders to know just how much they are into kiddie porn, and incest in Japan?
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