How about the rebroadcasting of video? I see this time and time again
online where someone has captured something off the television, or
downloaded it from somewhere and then slapped it up on their website.
Case and point, http://www.palazzojay.blogspot.com/
The reason I am using this site as an example (there are tons of sites
similar to this one out there) is that these rebroadcasted videos are
all over Blip this morning. Now, the person that has that website
really isnt breaking a copyright law. Correct? Blip are the ones that
are actually hosting those videos. I assume that they must accept full
responsibility should a Saturday Night Live lawyer come look around.
Something tells me that SNL doesnt use a Creative Commons license with
regards to their old shows.
Of course, that could open a huge can of worms when it comes to people
using copyright music within their videos. Many people do it. I myself
have been guilty of using music I didnt own in a video. Blatant
rebroadcasting of a television program is another thing though.
Am I way off base here and is there some clause in a Blip
agreement/contract that releases them of all copyright infringments?
David
http://www.taoofdavid.com
Yeah, Jay was totally violating copyright. There's no question what he was doing was illegal. He wasn't using bits of SNL in a larger piece of artwork. He wasn't making a video of himself on SNL, cutting in and out of their sketches, back to him... He didn't "add value" to the material -- he was clearly rebroadcasting work that he didn't have any rights to. He was putting blip at risk as well. There is no way that blip could sign something with Jay that would release them of responsibility -- Jay has no legal standing to sign a contract about someone else's work.
It's interesting that you used him as an example -- he was a student in my videoblogging class last semester. (The whole posting SNL clips and t.v. commercials thing was new, however. He added those to his blog after the semester was over.)
SNL is a particularly hot set of videos to post right now, in my opinion, since NBC just signed a deal with Apple to put them on the iTunes Music store. Apple has reason to want to clamp down on illegal rebroadcast, as well as NBC.
So what happened? Blip.tv pulled all the videos and emailed Jay to say... uh.... Mr. Palazzo.... we don't think so. Blip was very kind, and didn't punish him. They just stopped him cold.
