I was just thinking about how copyright crazy things have gotten in the last 5-10 years or so and thought how many good things it has ruined...

GI Joe Redubs by Fensler Films.... those were wonderful... Yet Hasbro had him shut down for making money off something they barely even market anymore. (the cartoon, not GI Joe).
Bungie/Microsoft never had RvB shut down, and they did exactly the same thing...

oh well. good thing I nabbed all the GI Joe dubs and had them saved before they all sank into the vast internet.

anyone else?

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Music.

I also still can't believe Youtube removed Smosh's original Pokemon theme (which has over 14 million views) because of some stupid company.

Well, other youtubers reposted the video.

Having Evil Dead 2 redo Evil Dead 1

Hmm...I thought parodies were legally allowed...

Technically this is patents and not copyrights but the way things are going you're going to need to pay biotech companies if you want to mess around with your own DNA because they'll have all the gene sequences patented.

As for copyrights though; I had a clip from "The Day After Tomorrow" with the song "Let it Snow" being played over it, up on youtube, and it got removed for "copyright violation". Right, because a minute-long clip in crappy resolution and without the original audio is REALLY going to cause them to lose money somehow.

threads like this

Tiny snippets of The Simpsons on youtube.
WTF fox, 30 seconds of Inaminate rod made you call out the lawyers? It's like free marketing.
****ing fox.

Because RoosterTeeth went legit and got permission to continue and eventually sell DVDs practically the second they started getting millions of hits a day.

Youtube seems pretty inconsistent with what's consider a copyright violation and what's not. There's copyright material being used all over that damn site yet I rarely ever seen any them get pulled off for copyright if someone doesn't complain about it enough.

Personally, I feel that anything that's copyrighted and used without permission should be allowed to be used under fair use ONLY if it is NOT the full product being presented (i.e. a portion of a song or a short clip of a movie). It's been a while since I took my "ethics and legalities" class but I think what I just said is true but with copyright laws being mutated constantly because of the internet, who knows what the law is right now on fair use.

Basically any video that takes the original work out of context is considered protected under fair use, and Google needs to start respecting that.

I love that rod.

How creativity is being strangled by the law:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187

That's one of my favorite TEDs