Viacom Owes Jonathan Coulton 37 Dollars

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Ask Viacom where Jonathan Coulton's 37 dollars is: http://www.viacom.com/contact/Pages/default.aspx

Jonathan Coulton's Flickr video: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/primer/flickr/

In which John Green examines the complicated relationship between Viacom and piracy: Viacom has filed a lawsuit against YouTube seeking more than a billion dollars in damages for the copyright infringement that was rife in the early days of YouTube. But John proves that spike.com, which is owned by Viacom, has been placing ads against content that doesn't belong to them for years, including Jonathan Coulton's brilliant music video "Flickr."

This video includes a snippet of "Flickr," which is--like this video--released under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons license. All of which is to say: Viacom, if you steal my video like you stole Coulton's, I will sue you.

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