[videoblogging] Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA

2010-05-04 Thread tom_a_sparks
http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA it looking more and more like GIF/LZW/Unisys, but it called Microsoft/apple/MPEG-LA/etc

[videoblogging] Re: Fwd: Online Video Monetization Summit, May 5th in NYC

2010-05-04 Thread daredolls
24 hours a minute. the current stats on youtube uploads. who besides me was surprised at the suggestion that the plethora of videos on youtube was a clear and present danger to the porn guys that built thenet . voyuers are what they are, no matter how they find what you have to offer.

[videoblogging] Re: Fwd: Online Video Monetization Summit, May 5th in NYC

2010-05-04 Thread daredolls
so go there, claim our rights, use our name, see what happens. dyna-flix.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mark Villaseñor videoblogyahoogr...@... wrote: Steve Elbows: I very much doubt that you have to be a user of the service in order to file a takedown notice under the DMCA. I

[videoblogging] Re: Fwd: Online Video Monetization Summit, May 5th in NYC

2010-05-04 Thread elbowsofdeath
What are you going on about? Protecting your copyrighted works via takedown notices is not the same as signing up for the site in order to upload content. And other people cannot claim to be the copyright holder and start throwing takedown notices around on your behalf, that we be bogus and an

[videoblogging] Re: Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA

2010-05-04 Thread elbowsofdeath
Well I think that article raises some important issues. Its more than a tad hysterical in some respects though. Lets face it, there is no end of legal smallprint issues, if we paid attention to every last one and assumed worst case scenarios as that article does, I could hardly get out of bed

[videoblogging] Re: Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA

2010-05-04 Thread Heath
I agree about the worst case scenarios usually, however, given the state of on line media and given the very real and intense battle going on over copyrights, copyright protections, the RIAA suing everyone, the big media corporations working harder than ever to buy legsislation, the inability

[videoblogging] Re: Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA

2010-05-04 Thread elbowsofdeath
Oh I dont know. Considering that the companies who hold the patents for things like H.264 are also companies that need us to both consume and create media in order to make a profit from us via sales of hardware, software services, I dont really think it is in their interests to try to extract

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Fwd: Online Video Monetization Summit, May 5th in NYC

2010-05-04 Thread Mark Villaseñor
daredolls: so go there, claim our rights, use our name, see what happens. Ahhmmm, yeah, right... This issue requires only a pittance of comprehensive grasp; you are mistaken. Intellectual Property defense does not depend upon membership with a subject ISP. Never has, probably never will.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA

2010-05-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
Their should just be a formal written statement of exclusion. maybe content creators and consumers are excluded while manufacturers of hardware and software are not. Then content creators would know that this will not and does not effect them. Maybe the fight should be for exemption policy and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Fwd: Online Video Monetization Summit, May 5th in NYC

2010-05-04 Thread Joly MacFie
I'll chime in on YouTube DMCA is one thing - one can file, and then the recipient can file a counter-notice to get the file put back up, and one has no option except to satrt proceedings. Thus it is not a very effective or economical way to take stuff down Terms Of Use takedowns on content on

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Fwd: Online Video Monetization Summit, May 5th in NYC

2010-05-04 Thread Mark Villaseñor
Joly MacFie: ...one can file [DMCA], and then the recipient can file a counter-notice to get the file put back up, and one has no option except to satrt proceedings. Thus it is not a very effective or economical way to take stuff down Presuming you are referring to litigation by use of the

[videoblogging] Re: Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA

2010-05-04 Thread elbowsofdeath
Yay here is a very sensible article that is the perfect antidote to the hysterical OSNews story: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/know-your-rights-h-264-patent-licensing-and-you/?s=t5 Cheers Steve --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan sullele...@... wrote: Their should

Re: [videoblogging] Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA

2010-05-04 Thread David Jones
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:57 PM, tom_a_sparks tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au wrote: http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA it looking more and more like GIF/LZW/Unisys, but it called Microsoft/apple/MPEG-LA/etc My Sanyo Xacti

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Fwd: Online Video Monetization Summit, May 5th in NYC

2010-05-04 Thread David Jones
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:09 PM, daredolls dared...@gmail.com wrote: 24 hours a minute. the current stats on youtube uploads. who besides me was surprised at the suggestion that the plethora of videos on youtube was a clear and present danger to the porn guys that built the net . voyuers

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA

2010-05-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
nice post. On May 4, 2010 8:16 PM, elbowsofdeath st...@dvmachine.com wrote: Yay here is a very sensible article that is the perfect antidote to the hysterical OSNews story: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/know-your-rights-h-264-patent-licensing-and-you/?s=t5 Cheers Steve --- In

[videoblogging] Re: Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA

2010-05-04 Thread tom_a_sparks
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan sullele...@... wrote: nice post. On May 4, 2010 8:16 PM, elbowsofdeath st...@... wrote: Yay here is a very sensible article that is the perfect antidote to the hysterical OSNews story: