Is it just me or is YouTube likely to adopt a policy of "2 strikes and your account is banned" policy now?

Still, upvote for learning how the system works and then making it work for you.

I'm not too familiar with the copyright laws he mentioned in this video. Could someone enlgihten me please?

"And I hope they die." = lawl.

First Amendment also protects parodies. If you're doing something in parody, then you are protected under free speech because it's a form of criticism. However, some companies use the copyright laws to shut them down because they say they're taking their ideas and profiting from them. It's a sad world that let's the media giants get away with it, considering these parodies have in the past stopped government corruption and helped cure a lot of social ills. But in essence, that's what 5 Second Videos is doing . . . taking someone else's idea and using it as a parody to make a point, which is unmistakably legal. YouTube is in the wrong and acting as a censor . . . and thus violating firth amendment rights. (But don't get that confused with violating their TOS which they can use as a right to censor and are thus doing.)

The problem is that Mr. Glasses is using actual movie footage, and it is copyright protected. Doing so is not parody even though what he does with the footage might be.

Though, it would be parody if he was merely imitating the footage.

could someone post a link to this guy's YouTube page?

could someone post a link to this guy's YouTube page?

Nope, Because that would be like giving you a fish and feed you for one day. Instead I'll teach you to fish and thus feed you for life:

Simply click on the video itself* to get to Youtube, then click his name "fivesecondmovies" located on the upper-right side above the description.

*anywhere but the Play button

If they cut the whole thing down to five (or whatever) seconds, that may be fair use as well as parody. It would probably be difficult to argue that a 5,400 second movie compressed down to 10 seconds would be a replacement for the entire thing.

Of course, Youtube is a private site run by a private company, so I don't see why the first amendment would apply. They can do whatever they like on their site. This could well be wrong though.

make your own stuff... and this problem disappears.

On the copyright issues, he claims 'fair use' and argues that he's creating parody and/or satire of the copyright owner's work. This is still a poorly defined area of copyright law. I would actually disagree with this defense, as its difficult for me to see how a super-fast edit of a movie constitutes a parody or satire (unlike, say, a Weird Al song or something).

Here's a link of someone's analysis of the cases related to this... includes cases involving a Saturday Night Live advert campaign, Dr. Seuss's family, and 2 Live Crew... so thats pretty cool.

http://tags.library.upenn.edu/project/11251

One court's definition of 'parody and satire', from the above link;

"Parody or satire, as we understand it, is when one artist, for comic effect or social commentary, closely imitates the style of another artist and in so doing creates a new art work that makes ridiculous the style and expression of the original. Under our cases parody and satire are valued forms of criticism, encouraged because this sort of criticism itself fosters the creativity protected by the copyright law."

Thanks for the link and additional info, bamdrew. Copyright laws in my country are so vague they might as well not exist, but I'm interested in learning more about what other countries are doing...

So, what about music "sampling"? I see a lot of this in hip-hop, some to good effect and some bad, but are there copyright laws covering it? Would this have to adhere to the same guidelines as artists covering old songs?

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