Weekend Linkroll – 05-24-08

By Jonathan Bailey • May 24th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Linkblog, Uncategorized

It was another crazy week for copyright news where telling the “hard” news from the “bizarre” news is extremely difficult at best. We have the Web Sheriff and an army of B-list musicians declaring war on The Pirate Bay, Hannah Montana Candy, a funeral for DRM and much more.

This wasn’t to say that this week was devoid of big developments. RedLasso gets hit with a big cease and desist, Mininova faces a lawsuit, a major new trade agreement on the horizon, Canada’s DMCA may move forward and linking to movies leads to a big fine.

Remember, as usual, this week’s linkroll is a “raw” link list. Some stories are duplicated, some do not point to their original sources and some may not be accurate. A great deal of refining goes into producing the show notes for the Copyright 2.0 Show.


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Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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  • "it’s nice to see (and even post) old music videos that people haven’t seen in years."

    On the other side of the coin, we wouldn't be worrying about the RickRoll if that weren't the case... I guess every form of expression has a downside.

    One thing I pulled away from the YouTomb site though is that takedowns are not as common as I thought. There have only been about 4000 takedowns out of hundreds of thousands of videos. A rough guess would say that about 2% of all videos result in a takedown.

    That sounds like a lot and I guess it is more than on other hosts, but compare that to the percent that COULD be considered for takedown.

    I was actually surprised at how low the number was.
  • Hmm...That Youtomb link caught my attention. I can understand Youtube removing music videos and TV clips. But at the same time, it's nice to see (and even post) old music videos that people haven't seen in years. Besides posting songs on any social network site can be used as a form of expression...well...that's the case for me.

    Anyway, if Youtube takes down any of my videos or even suspends my channel it's to big deal to me anymore. Not only am I addicted to Youtube, but there's too much drama that goes on over there.
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