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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Copyright failed
*nods in agreement*
Goes to show YouTube just deletes without doing their homework like the lazy, ignorant bums that they are...
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.
Aye, those dumb bastards.
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.
@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.
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, 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.
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.
They even fail at failing.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What about faking emails from other companies? ^_^
It's copyright not Copywrite!
Copywrite = Copypaste?
Copywrite= Copypaste = Copypasta
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.
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...
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
"Holy crap, Lois!" - Peter from Family Guy, 200X
What's the point here ?_?
Trying to infringe on the Family Guy copyright to see if her(?) comment gets deleted temporarily.
"Holy crap, Lolis!" - Anonymous from Sankaku Complex, 201X
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.
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.
Yes, the DS is region free.
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Hope this helps...?
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...