Notes on the Viacom ruling [LWN.net]

Notes on the Viacom ruling

Posted Jul 4, 2008 22:16 UTC (Fri) by grahammm (guest, #773)
In reply to: Notes on the Viacom ruling by kirkengaard
Parent article: Notes on the Viacom ruling

If it just to be used to measure the popularity of copyright vs non-copyright video, then why
does it need Viacom to do it. I am sure that google itself has more facilities for doing this.

Anyway, what is a non-copyright video? Unless it is specifically placed in the public domain
or (very unlikely in the case of videos) the copyright has expired then every video, whether a
clip from a movie or TV show or one recorded on a camcorder or mobile phone, is copyright. So
as there will be almost no non-copyright videos on youtube (or anywhere else on the net), the
popularity of copyright videos must be almost infinitely higher than that of non-copyright
ones.

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Notes on the Viacom ruling

Posted Jul 4, 2008 23:31 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, what they mean is obviously 'stuff owned by big media companies' 
because of course it's not *really* copyrighted unless you can afford an 
army of lawyers.

(Actually they probably mean 'stuff owned by Viacom companies so we can 
try to sue everyone who ever went near it pour discourager les autres', 
but we all knew that.)