Pet Peeve Of The Day
Townhall.com has a practice of watermarking their web address in the middle of clips they post on YouTube. The argument by CNN (in this case) could be made that Townhall is attempting to portray the clip as something they created. I had a poster on NMATV do the same thing and reminded him that could get us in trouble with the video’s creator. I suggested he put his logo on a graphic before and after the clip (“bookends”), that way he could get credit for finding the clip, which I believe Townhall wants to do to drive traffic to their site.
The problem is that this continued practice could make the creators take direct action against all of us, and that could mean demanding we pull their clips down from our sites, or not being able to download clips from network sites as they’d block that ability. This could also negate our “fair use” rights with an accurate copyright infringement accusation.
How would Townhall like someone plastering logos on their original videos?
November 17th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Finders keepers, losers weepers?
Seriously, “children” of all persuasions should curb their egos, and not coopt other people’s work. I still wonder what, if any, are the substantial differences between children and adults. In too many cases, it is a quantity of wrinkles and nothing more. It is obvious that wisdom does not come with age for everyone. Although, like their immature counterparts, I would hope that adults are never too old to learn from their mistakes.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
n.n., I know some mighty tall children!
Some people will not learn from their mistakes. The Universe has no problem dealing with them. To paraphrase Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein), “The sentence is death and there is no appeal.” The sad thing is all of the other people they manage to take with them…
Igor
November 17th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Igor:
I know some mighty tall children!
I laughed…
all of the other people they manage to take with them
then I cried. I’ll pass on this production.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Well, we have finally done it!
$12,000,000,000,000 and counting.
Another $400,000,000,000 or so, and our recorded public debt will exceed our annual GDP.
MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (as of 10/31/2009)
I can’t wait for the “reform”, which will extend and redistribute that burden to more people, in more places. Economics -101 (aka, Marx’s dream) has been, and will always be a failure. The road to capitalism passes through Marxism (aka totalitarianism). Unfortunately, many people have it backwards. So, we progress, then regress, …
It’s too bad that China has that backward communist political/social system, because their embrace of capitalism will be the envy of the world.