It took quite awhile longer than I'd expected. This thing got around in a big way, what with The Wall Street Journal and Yahoo! and Slashdot and Ars Technica and seemingly a jillion more outlets that covered it. Lots of people wanted to weigh in on this and for sake of objectivity I've tried my best to include everyone that I could find that raised valid arguments about this issue, regardless of which side they took.So here ya go: a (more or less)...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Google accuses Viacom of secretly uploading its own videos to YouTube (WOW!!!)
This is gonna be a helluva fun thing to watch. I'm getting the popcorn ready even now...Media conglomermonster Viacom - which has tied up the video hosting service in litigation for the past three years over "copyright infringement" - is now said to have been secretly uploading its own videos to the Google-owned website!From the statement on the official YouTube blog, pertaining to court documents made public earlier today...Because content owners...
Thursday, June 03, 2010
The Knight Shift is standing up for The Sideshow Coalition
About three years ago, this blog's eclectic proprietor had to learn awful fast and hard about Viacom and its dispute with YouTube. If you recall, if you worked it out in your head then logically Viacom was accusing me of violating my own copyright after Viacom took my work without permission and used it for a show on VH1, and then accused ME of copyright infringement for posting the clip of that onto YouTube.Well, I won that case as best I can imagine...
Friday, May 16, 2008
"Dear Sumner Redstone, from the guy you STOLE video from ..."
In spite of what I said about no hard feelings, there ain't no way that I'm gonna let this one slide...Many of you no doubt remember what happened between me and Viacom several months ago, regarding the first TV commercial from my 2006 school board campaign.To quickly recap: months after the election, Viacom's network VH1 chose to use my commercial for a segment of its show...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
VIACOM SITUATION UPDATE: YouTube has restored my clip
It will be two weeks ago tomorrow since YouTube notified me that it had pulled the clip I had uploaded from VH1's show Web Junk 2.0 featuring my first school board commercial. VH1's parent company Viacom had considered it an infringement of copyright and requested that YouTube to act accordingly. Later that same day I filed a counter-notification claim with YouTube, arguing that I should be entitled to use the clip because it was a derivative product...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Viacom v. Knight at the Citizen Media Law Project
A few days ago was the one year anniversary of that very strange situation between multi-billion dollar multimedia conglomerate Viacom (owner of CBS, Paramount, Comedy Central and many other brands) and Yours Truly. If you're fairly new to this joint here's my first post about what happened and here's the list of all the news articles that I could find about it. Long story...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made by infringing on my own copyright!
UPDATE 09-12-2007 12:29 am EST: YouTube has restored the clip"Chutzpah" is a Yiddish word meaning "unbelievable gall or audacity". An example of it would be the story of the kid who murders both of his parents, then throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he’s an orphan.That's chutzpah. So is this: multimedia giant Viacom is claiming that I have violated...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
YOUTUBE/VIACOM AFTERMATH - Part 2: The DMCA Counter-Notification Claim
Because a lot of people have expressed interest in this, and because I haven't been able to see any reason to withhold this info at this point, here is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act counter-notification claim that I submitted to YouTube.(And in case you don't know what this is about, here's the original post about my situation with Viacom over a YouTube clip that I had uploaded and here's the post about its resolution.)It all started with...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Meet "The Dude Who Took Down Viacom" at SPARKcon in Raleigh!
That commercial is going to haunt me for the rest of my life, isn't it? :-PSPARKcon is a grassroots-organized four-day festival in Raleigh celebrating individual creativity around the Triangle area and throughout North Carolina. This will be the fourth annual event and this year SPARKcon will be held September 17-20. And I've been invited to speak that Friday night about...
Friday, September 18, 2009
I'm speaking at SPARKcon in Raleigh this evening!
Just a friendly reminder that if you want to meet the blogger/proprietor of The Knight Shift in person and you're going to be in the Raleigh/Durham today, that you're in luck!I will be at Artspace, located at 201 East Davie St in Raleigh at 5:45 p.m. this afternoon during the filmSPARK track of SPARKcon: a grassroots-organized four-day festival celebrating individual creativity...
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Judge orders YouTube to surrender ALL user history to Viacom
A judge has ordered YouTube to hand over ALL the history of its users - including videos watched and IP addresses - to Viacom, as part of Viacom's "infringement" lawsuit against YouTube and its owner Google.I first found the story on Slashdot, which is reflecting a lot of outrage at the judge's ruling.Since it's already been established that Viacom has STOLEN video from ME, perhaps I should sue and have a judge also give me YouTube's user history...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Photos from SPARKcon!
Yeah, it's been late coming ('cuz I've been alternately busy and lazy) but here's some of what went down at SPARKcon in Raleigh this past Friday!My presentation, "The Dude Who Took Down Viacom: One Filmmaker's Story" was scheduled for 5:45 that afternoon at Artspace. About 15 people showed up to hear me discuss that very bizarre situation that happened two years ago between...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Once again this blogger makes Cracked.com ("5 Famous Online Copyright Crusaders Who Are Total Hypocrites")
At this point I've lost count. It's at least the fourth or fifth time that my shenanigans have landed me on popular humor site Cracked.com.
This latest appearance comes courtesy of an article titled "5 Famous Online Copyright Crusaders Who Are Total Hypocrites". With a title like that I just had to scan and tear it down and analyze it to see what I was doing that...
Friday, August 31, 2007
Quick update on the Viacom situation
Well, this has certainly been an interesting past 48 hours.There's been lots of activity happening on this end about the deal with Viacom and me: how they claimed I infringed on their copyright after posting a video on YouTube that Viacom made by infringing on my copyright.It's evoked quite a bit more controversy than I had expected.May be able to talk about this more in the next few da...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Cover for TRANSFORMERS: THE SCORE album
The irony didn't sink in until a short while ago: all summer I've been championing the release of Steve Jablonsky's orchestral soundtrack from the movie Transformers. And Transformers was a Paramount production. Well, Paramount is owned by Viacom......and now Viacom is claiming that I infringed on its copyright because I uploaded onto YouTube a video that Viacom made by...
Friday, January 15, 2010
YouTube called: I beat Comcast
Okay, YouTube didn't really call me, but you know...Last month I reported that Comcast was giving me grief about how I posted a clip from E!'s show The Soup where they used MY commercial from the school board campaign in 2006... without asking me, but I was fine with that. I just expected the same courtesy from E! and its ownership that I have given them. That's not too much to ask, in my mind.And of course, this whole thing is too much like that...
Friday, November 09, 2007
How in the world did I get associated with The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince?
Click here for "The Home Video Prince Doesn't Want You To See", a story on the ABC News website. It's about Prince, AKA The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, scouring the Internet for "copyright infringement". The Lenzes, a family in Pennsylvania, had a video of their 18-month old son Holden on YouTube. The clip is only a few seconds long, but...
Thursday, August 30, 2007
More Viacom "infringement" insanity: Now lip-syncing to Prince is out
The story about my issue with Viacom and how they made YouTube take down a clip that I'd posted of a VH1 show which was already made with my own material is starting to get around. Now comes word of another crazy clip takedown on Viacom's orders...Kenya Allmond received notification from YouTube yesterday that one of her videos had been pulled for "copyright infringement". The offending material? A clip of her boyfriend lip-syncing to "Kiss" by...
Monday, December 31, 2007
Looking back on 2007
I don't really feel like doing this right now. We got back from a trip out of state a short while ago and I'm way tired, among other things.But, these are the last few hours of 2007, before a whole new year rings in. So I'm going to try to do my traditional wrap-up of the preceding year.I'm not going to sugarcoat things: 2007 was a very, very rough year. In fact, of the "year-end reviews" that I've done so far on this blog, 2007 has been by far...
