Its was up for over a year, it DID play Village People’s In the Navy (bought legally from Itunes) and used my own footage that I created in a variety of video games

But still, is this not something that is legal to do? I was never claiming that the song was made by me, in fact at the beginning it said “Music: Village People, In the Navy”.

These Bogus letters cost me 20 hours wort of my hard time a labor, and I can never retrieve the video! Actually….if I add the time spent in game recording the footage….it was closer to 30 hours or so….

-Will
Explosive Artists Studio’s

I’m suddenly reminded of all of the lawsuits over graphical user interfaces in which Xerox belatedly realized, “Oh, we can sue too!” Expect the Young Men’s Christian Association to sue Scorpio Music S.A. / Can’t Stop Productions shortly.

… but seriously, Frank Church needs to chill the eff out.

Back to the subject at hand, I think there’s a massive disconnect between the lovey-dovey higher ups at Yahoo! who have been preaching all sorts of openness and user-love and the people down low who actually handle the complaints and write the policies. Actually, that is the case with a lot of facets of Yahoo!’s business – the execs preach some grand message (or “mission statement”), but forget to follow up and effect any real changes where it actually matters.

Wauw – does that make it more or less absurdity? Does it make it more or less newsworthy?

What’s your point exactly? That you have a Twitter account and know of MA’s whereabouts?

I’ve just read your post about how Yahoo erased your uploaded photo and the comments permanently due to of a bogus DMCA.

That was a stunning disaster.

Indeed as you said if Yahoo admitted to such blatant mistakes made to you and other prominent photographers who could put up a public fight, then little guys like us have no chance at all.

It’s so tragic that Yahoo has this “another infringement incident and we will nuke you” attitude toward its customers. I got tons of spam emails on my Yahoo email account, and I doubt Yahoo would treat the spammers the same way because Yahoo needs spammers’ clicks. Sad.

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This is an issue I researched recently: what exactly does happen when a takedown is sent. I talked with EFF and with one of the DMCA authors.

I’m not a lawyer, but I believe that the DMCA explicitly lays out what service providers have to do both in the take down and in the process of adjudicating the response from the poster. These requirements allow the provider to remain within the safe harbor. It is really not a question of duty but rather the severe and significant consequences for both the business and the individuals if there is a successful infringement case that falls outside the safe harbors provision… it is this reality that directs service provider’s behaviors… not duty.

This is an issue I researched recently: what exactly does happen when a takedown is sent. I talked with EFF and with one of the DMCA authors.

I’m not a lawyer, but I believe that the DMCA explicitly lays out what service providers have to do both in the take down and in the process of adjudicating the response from the poster. These requirements allow the provider to remain within the safe harbor. It is really not a question of duty but rather the severe and significant consequesnces for both the business and the individuals if there is a successful infringement case that falls outside the safe harbors provision… it is this reality that directs service provider’s behaviors… not duty.

“You don’t get the purpose of the EFF, thus the “get those losers” comment. Let you freedom be stifled one bit and how you will be crying for support.”

“Let you freedom?…”
“How you will be crying?…”
Um, what?

Commenting under different names to appear as though there is some consensus is very clever grasshopper.

Obviously they don’t care at all…