[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread David Howell
Andrew, just go back, sign up with Veoh and be done with it. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shut up? Thanks for the great advise Josh. The point of the matter is that David last said this:

[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread JD Lasica
Hi Andrew, it's too bad your email query didn't get more thoughtful responses here. I suspect it's because it's largely a legal question, and most of us aren't lawyers. Be that as it may ... You're right: varioius early versions of Gumby are indeed in the public domain. Here are 8 PD gumby

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread Andreas Haugstrup
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:24:02 +0200, JD Lasica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, it's too bad your email query didn't get more thoughtful responses here. I suspect it's because it's largely a legal question, and most of us aren't lawyers. Be that as it may ... I usually don't mind giving

[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread Chuck Olsen
We're going to need an extra day at Vloggercon for cage matches. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what the heck is going on here... both of you shut up and start talking about the issue at hand here... put your ego's aside and have beneficial

[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question/Lime Jello

2006-04-24 Thread missbhavens1969
I can think of at least five matches that I'd totally bet money on. For some I'd like the added fun of a kiddie pool full of lime jello. I can hear it now: Vlogger Smack-Down '06. We'll sell you the whole seat but you'll only need the edge! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chuck Olsen

[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question/Lime Jello

2006-04-24 Thread Casey McKinnon
I hope you'll be betting in my favour, Bekah... I may not be in this debate/smackdown thread but I can always fight on behalf of someone... like Feyd-Rawtha Harkonnen fighting on behalf of the Padishah Emperor in Dune... Casey, ready to kick vlogass. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread andrew michael baron
We are not having a problem at all right now, but I always think about this with regards to our theme song that we have adopted, Zoom a Little Zoom. It came from an album called Space Songs with Tom Glazer, a popular 1940's folk musician: http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/ Unlike the

[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread Casey McKinnon
It's funny because I used a public domain version of Cole Porter's Let's Do It for the end titles of Kitkast and although it sounds like a nice sweet song, it had a few racist slurs that I cut out of the clip I used. The line was: Chinks do it, Japs do it... I was shocked when I first heard

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello,This is one of the areas when SMIL would be useful.(For those who don't know what SMIL is...) SMIL is a markup language like HTML. But designed with our type of stuff in mind.With it, swap out a song (in SMIL) as easily as you could swap out an image (in HTML).See yaOn 4/24/06, andrew

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread Deirdre Straughan
On 4/24/06, Casey McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was shocked when I first heard it... Rudy and I think it may have fallen in the public domain because of those racist slurs. Let's Do It is in the public domain? How did you determine that? I wouldn't get too exercised about the lyrics.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread WWWhatsup
One [proposal] would, for instance, create a new federal crime of just trying to commit copyright infringement. CHAIRMAN SMITH READIES NEW DIGITAL COPYRIGHT BILL [SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Declan McCullagh] For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread Adrian Miles
around the 24/4/06 andrew michael baron mentioned about Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question that: Unlike the rest of the albums in the six-LP set produced around the same time, this album experienced a lapse in copyright and for some reason, perhaps accidentally (I think

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-24 Thread Anne Walk
thanks for the links, Adrian! very useful info for everyone.On 4/24/06, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:around the 24/4/06 andrew michael baron mentioned about Re:[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question that: Unlike the rest of the albums in the six-LP set produced around

[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-23 Thread David Howell
Uhhh...Gumby isnt public domain. The little guy is far from that. http://www.gumbyworld.com/copy.htm It looks like Veoh and their promise to rid their site of copyrighted material was rather empty. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, WWWhatsup

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-23 Thread andrew michael baron
David, I could add a pretty long rant about knee jerking responses but I'll just suck it up and get right to the point: Copyrights and trademarks can expire, lapse or be changed for a number of reasons. I have found that in fact there are several Gumby cartoons that are a part of the public

[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-23 Thread David Howell
Oh Andrew...please feel free to get your stubby little fingers typing away then. Rather than write back to me though, address whatever it is you have to say to the owners of the Gumby copyright. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-23 Thread andrew michael baron
Way to stay off-topic and avoid your dishonest and false statements. None of it is your fault per say, and I assume you can't help it, but I only addressed you to let you know that you were wrong. On Apr 24, 2006, at 1:19 AM, David Howell wrote: Oh Andrew...please feel free to get your

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-23 Thread Josh Leo
what the heck is going on here... both of you shut up and start talking about the issue at hand here... put your ego's aside and have beneficial discussion,.,On 4/24/06, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Way to stay off-topic and avoid your dishonest and false statements.None of it

[videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-23 Thread David Howell
My dishonest and false statements? I posted a link to a site that says they hold all the copyrights on the Gumby character. Fire off an email to them informing them that they are wrong. Go piss up someone elses tree you little twerp. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Trademark/Copyrights Question

2006-04-23 Thread andrew michael baron
Shut up? Thanks for the great advise Josh.The point of the matter is that David last said this:Uhhh...Gumby isnt public domain. and he also said this: It looks like Veoh and their promise to rid their site of copyrighted material was rather empty.These statements are false. Let it be known