K-ON! TV broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System has deleted videos of Sega’s upcoming K-ON! game on the grounds of copyright infringement.
The preview videos were deleted at the request of TBS, with YouTube giving the standard copyright response. Sega of course had every right to upload the videos as they were of its officially licensed game.
TBS for its part is not even the copyright holder for K-ON!, being a mere TV station.
The videos were later restored, in what must have been a rather embarrassing incident for those responsible.
The incident of course highlights the fact that apparently neither YouTube nor TBS take any notice of what it is they are actually deleting – it would not have taken a great deal of scrutiny on the part of YouTube to release the claim was baseless.
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"computer input "copyright" "
"inputing "copyright" "
*beep boob beep boob bep*
" "copyright" results found"
"computer what are the results"
"FAILURE FAILURE FAILRUE!!!"
"COMPUTER!! WHAT IS THE ERROR!!! COMPUTER!!!"
"Youtube"
............
"i should've known"
Was it because they just realize that they could do something better than a project diva look alike game?
this is azu-nyan we're talking about here.
wait, is she in the game? *watches trailer*
Well, we have known this for years, that the DMCA things are NOT scrutinized properly by a LIVING BREATHING PERSON and that things are removed when they are allowed by fair use or even when the OWNER of the copyrighted thing in question uploads them!
They need to fix this so that companies are encouraged to be SKEPTICAL of copyright claims by someone, until proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
sucks, like the shitty anime
Damn that Pic makes Mio and Ritsu have big racks...
Youtube, by law, CANNOT check what they're deleting. If they receive valid DMCA notice, they have to oblige, no matter what.
The funny part is, there are some very serious judical penalties (5 years in prison) for abusing DMCA notices, aka. sending notices for stuff you don't own.
So not only you can get your videos restored (possibly with recompensation), but you can send those fuckers to prison for sending invalid DMCA notices. That is, if you live in US. If come from more sane parts of the world, you're totally fucked, since you don't ave representation under US law.
Guess again! Youtube can ignore a DMCA notice if they realize that:
1. The person in question is trying to have something taken down that another person has the right from the copyright owner to post.
2. The person in question is NOT the actual copyright owner.
Both these things applied here, so Youtube could have ignored the DMCA notices. Hell, I've ignored them more times than I can count on my website, because everything I post falls under FAIR USE!
Either as part of an article on a game/movie/music to show why I like or dislike the thing in question, or because it is fanart, which is allowed by Fair Use.
Fuck Youtube, all they ever do is suck corporate cock. Grow a backbone, pussies!
You must be new to DMCATube.
This happens on a daily basis because DMCATube's policy is to do whatever the notice says without checking whether or not it's correct.
Fucking Youtube, they need to stop being such pussywhipped children.
yeah, youtube's dmca policy stuff is pure garbage. TBS banned my old account because i tagged a couple of my videos as "clannad", despite only using a couple seconds of footage from the show in each video, i think they're pretty trigger happy.
If you're absolutely sure you were within Fair Use, then appeal it. Youtube would reinstate your videos even faster than they 'removed' them (it pretty much happens automatically now and is in effect until DMCA issuer files counter-counter-notice).
And put the case into to court against TBS to give them some real extra pain.
I've seen a lot of vids that covers songs which has also been removed by TBS. Cover songs.
The been doing that to a lot of people.
Maybe SEGA is afraid that if people watch videos about the game they wont buy it.
TBS, "Very Funny".
What Youtube staff do while on the job: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe6FxXsqN_I
Hahahaha, given how anal Sega was about removing videos of Project Diva before and shortly after its release this seems like poetic justice.
This has happened many times on youtube, even the European and U.S. youtube had content deleted by requests from people who were not copyright holders. It goes to show you how inattentive the staff at youtube is.
This is why the DMCA is broken. The penalties for false DMCA claims should be extremely harsh. Tons of legit videos have been removed by YouTube without any research into if the claim is even real.
Of course, Google owns YouTube and they hate freedom of speech and the internet, so I guess it's not surprise.
The rabbit hole goes much deeper than most of you can imagine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQHvtFgB7h8
REMOVED DUE TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, it was a video of am unfavorable news broadcast about Anthony Morrison that is perfectly legal to post due to fair use. His family remember DMCAed it lol
I feel sorry for youtube. They have to comply immediately with any claim straight away no matter what. In the Viacom lawsuit case it was discovered that they had been uploading videos (for viral marketing or other purposes)on the one hand then making copyright claims on the other. Good thing the judge found in YT's favor.
TBS can stop 男の生き様, a song from Downtown's show Lincoln from being uploaded to Youtube but, K-On!? Come on, they fail with their understanding of copyright.
First question should actually be, is this TBS in the first place who made the claims?
YouTube doesn't verify in any way if you are indeed who you say you are, and will just delete a video if a DMCA claim is filed, scared a sue-happy company (like Viacom) will take them to court for hosting copyrighted material.
It's possible (or even very likely) that this was just the work of some clown who doesn't like K-ON!, Sega, or maybe even both and filed a DMCA claim in TBS' name to show that.
i blame the company in this case. youtube is kinda busy filtering content from the biebertards in the states.
People should stop uploading in Youtube and move to Dailymotion. Youtube sucks because of them removing and region blocks.
They probably thought it was some kind of fan-made AMV.... what losers.
TBS is also taking off music covers from youtube due to similar, eg. tkmdr's (Senri-han's) keionbu drum covers.
Maybe Pony Canyon didn't like it? :lol
"Don't Be Hypocrites" better suits them.
It seems this is the case where the term "Copyright" gets abused
Reminds me of those deleted touhou videos. Since when Zun starts deleting videos.
ZUN is to drunk to protest, and even if he's sober, he won't complain since he has better things than troll YouTube and take down videos...
"Haters gonna hate..."
Nothing more, nothing less...
Wow, soon you won't be albo to put any video on YouTube becouse of copyrights!
Copywrong
Ahah, Youtube and TBS failed badly this time. I want the game now! Can't wait one more month!
TBS copyright holders sure look gullible. I bet their employees get bonuses for every 10 copyright infringement notices they successfully send.
And since they're only a TV station, they must be reporting to the creators of the show, who themselves didn't give a damn and just says "Yes" when asked if the content should be removed. This time it must suck to be proven that they abuse their jobs since this made them look like total asses on the faces of the people they themselves report to.
Youtube is no different in japan :P
they still delete any flagged videos
*shakily removes eyeglasses*
Anyone who approves of Youtube's copyright policy, leave the room now.
I don't believe anyone's leaving sir...
"Holy crap, Lois!" - Peter from Family Guy, 200X
"Holy crap, Lolis!" - Anonymous from Sankaku Complex, 201X
What's the point here ?_?
Trying to infringe on the Family Guy copyright to see if her(?) comment gets deleted temporarily.
wtf are they crying this wil not be released outside JPN ??? just let same fan see it won't hurt them !!!
this ^^
what's wrong with people seeing it. even though sega will not port it(maybe) but at least let the fans from all over the world see so that they may import it and such.
off topic question, is the DS region free? since the psp is i expect ds is the same.
Yes, the DS is region free.
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Hope this helps...?
Yes, the DS is region free.
And damn copyright bans, someone'll ban it when it's not even their own product in the first place now.
Ah well, it's not like I'm interested in K-ON.
Well, at least they restored them back, unlike some anal copyright holders out there who can't even stand their stuff being made into parodies.. (eg. The Shakeweight ad)
they never actually delete anything :P
it's like WoW characters.
So they don't respect truly the law about copyright...
Good one !!!
nobody can prove it as they restrict access to the file :P
it's like if i will try to prove over the internet that your have pirated game on your computer, won't work :P
I remember upliading the trailer and a few K-ON!! MADs
And all got deleted by TBS
It's kind of silly for them to have things deleted that technically endorse/advertise their product...
Copyright failed
*nods in agreement*
Goes to show YouTube just deletes without doing their homework like the lazy, ignorant bums that they are...
Why is YouTube supposed to police content on behalf of the rights holder? It is just a service provider.
If they as a middle-man are legally-bound to police content, guess where that puts ISPs?
you would think YouTube would learn to ask questions fest then delete stuff if nessessary, instead of thier delete first then ask questions later, or never depending on what was uploaded.
Errr... you do know that the youtube employees only consists of about 35+ people right?
What needs to be done is that they increase the number of employees managing youtube.
But if they increase the people working on youtube then the people already working there won't get as much money, that's not going to happen.
They even fail at failing.
Filing a false DMCA claim generally means nothing. Good luck trying to find more than a handful of cases where the person got in legal trouble for filing false DMCA claims. Despite it being a law, it is basically less than filing a false police report - generally nothing happens - a light slap on the wrist or a warning at worst. According to Google, over a third of the DMCA claims they received were completely and blatantly false, yet no actions have been taken against any of the people making the false claims.
This comment has been removed due to copyright infringement.
DMCA if proven wrong can mean a law suit. as its a LAW. and one you can be held acountable for REGARDLESS of you actions or reasons.
this is why filing false DMCA's should be worryed about as if the guy on the other end relly want to fight it and has a good option to win your fucked mate
Aye, those dumb bastards.
@Anonymous 03:39
That's actually incorrect. It is up to the provider to determine if the claim is correct and remove the infringing content. If they fail to do so, they can be held liable in a later lawsuit if the content was obviously infringing. That last stipulation means most providers will take down anything without even looking at it so that there is no way for them to be held liable, ala YouTube.
Also, there is NO punishment for somebody that files a false claim, except the general false claim of facts and/or damages caused by the false claim. Those claims must be brought up by the damaged party or parties (or representatives of each). This means pretty much it almost never happens as it's painful and sometimes costly to deal with the litigation.
TBS fail for issuing a baseless takedown notice.
YouTube pretty much has to comply, although they do make it easy to file a counterclaim.
IIRC Sega could sue TBS under DMCA for a bad-faith takedown. But as licensee, that would be kind of self-defeating.
Actually, the DMCA says NOTHING about taking down work just because someone sends out a notice. If the notice is vague enough (and most DMCA notices are that are sent to Youtube) Youtube can send a request for 'more information' before taking something down.
actually there is a second law, a safe harbor one, that place like youtube take advantage of.
the dmca = piracy = theft
safe harbor = site with content that takes it down = nor responsible
im guessing this is k on they just saw that and blanket took down a metric fuckload of shit, and this just happened to be collateral dmg.
Actually, I do believe that the laws are at fault here. IANAL but as far as I understand, the DMCA requires work to be taken down without questioning it, and if the request is wrong then the author can protest it, and the person who filed the request is in deep shit.
Can't blame the mods, really. I guess they receive so many of those messages right now that they just prefer to take them down right away, that's all.
However I do think that there should be some countermeasures for false copyright reports that would keep griefers at bay.
Copywrong?
or maybe Copyleft?
Copy that, lil' buddy!
This just proves how much youtube has gone downhill with Copywrite.
Only thing i heard that was worse was WMG Removing Metallica Videos on THEIR OWN Music on THEIR account.
And Seriously, It's just gameplay.
Why do people have to stupid and delete almost everything on youtube now a days.
1 would think it was be Free Advertising for the game.
Yeah... Pre 2007 there were barely and internet celebrities, apart from the classics
(Star Wars Kid, Gary Numan, etc.)
And now we have...a crap-ton of them.
But it was bearable... because to make up for them, we had also had a crap-ton of video-game walkthroughs.
But what REALLY ticked me off is that they removed the star rating system.
That, though extremely flawed because the majority of people either votes 1 or 5,
IS UN-FUCKING-FORGIVABLE
Not to mention it also introduced
"Thumps of for being an ass" and "928 people should suck a log" crap.
"1 would think it was be Free Advertising for the game."
That's what I thought: this ridiculous deletion and reposting seems like a brilliant marketing gimmick. It got SanCom's attention at least.
It's copyright not Copywrite!
Copywrite = Copypaste?
Copywrite= Copypaste = Copypasta
There are examples of peoples video blogs being removed, that is, just them sitting there talking in front of the camera. And that's mostly just some moron that didn't like what they said and reports it for violating their copyright to get rid of it. Youtube staff check nothing, ever.
What about faking emails from other companies? ^_^
There's no way they'll check every allegation of copyright infringement or whatever. They will just start ignoring requests to take down big companies' videos. Those uploaded by normal users will still be deleted right away.
We could start to report videos uploaded by big companies, especially those who like to report videos. That would give them some of their own medicine and when they complain it might very well lead to the tube checking what it is they delete.
O_o;
Well, I'm sure some entry-level worker at TBS was doing this job of looking out for K-On copyright that appears to come from there television broadcast. Either mistakes happen or he/she didn't really care and just did a search all, tag'em copyright and went to lunch.
I'm sure SEGA sent them letter letting them know who buys ads on there airwaves and how easy that can be removed too.
what total idiots. Deleting shit that's not even theirs to begin with.
So that do that in Youtube japan as well.. wow.
dat english...
dat comment...
DAT ASS!...wait a minute...
lets write an official looking from universal studios to delete some movie trailers.
wonder if that quite obvious fake mail ould be successful ._.
I have issues with how Youtube handles copyright, this justifies that...
I even heard trolls try to claim copyright infringement on videos where people talk about other youtube users they dislike.Free speech on youtube is a joke.
nothing of value was lost :)
Everyone wants to be a part of them
Copyright is inhibiting our freedom of creativity. The world is so filled, we can't create anything without stepping on someone else's toe...
"Sega of course had every tight to upload"
Sure. They've got every tight to upload. But what about their rights?
Their right to wear tights?
So TBS isn´t even the copyright holder, so why to there care?
They don't care, they just are fags.