4 ms·
So where's a link to the video? I'm digging and will update if I find it. Edit: The following link seems to match many of the attributes mentioned in the compl
by aspensmonster 13y ago
So where's a link to the video? I'm digging and will update if I find it.
Edit: The following link seems to match many of the attributes mentioned in the complaint filed (date of talk, sponsor of talk, his keynote speaker status, location of talk, video length).
http://vimeo.com/13816922 http://vimeo.com/13816922
http://youtu.be/KBTWoCaNKn4?t=37m41s http://youtu.be/KBTWoCaNKn4?t=37m41s
Edit2: Confirmed. This is the talk. The Ars article says the title of the talk was "Open," same as the title in the video. The "infringement" starts around 37:40. Funnily enough, the "infringed work" is apparently a remix itself. Go figure. You couldn't make this stuff up.
Edit3: I can't tell whether the song itself is a remix, or if Lessig meant there were several remixes of the original clip that had the music dubbed over clips from The Breakfast Club. It appears to be the latter.
Suffice it to say, this is fucking ridiculous. Raise your hand if you're going to watch a 49 minute long video in order to try and "home tape" the 47 second clip 37 minutes and 40 seconds in, especially if you can just download the official video from here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so
Whether this is "official" as in this is the actual video shot for the song, or "official" as in "welovephoenix" is their official youtube channel (or both), I don't know. But that link has nearly 10 million views.
Edit4:
And this is the original video remixing the song with The Breakfast Club and another 80s movie I'm too twentysomething to recognize, sitting pretty at 458k views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq741YqlP7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq741YqlP7w
- fpgeek 13y agoLessig retracted his counter-notice in response to their lawsuit threat, so the video is still down.
- aspensmonster 13y agoI know, but I'm guessing that the recently-posted video of his that got the takedown notice is a cleaned up version of the video I linked. I'm currently trying to dig through the talk at the moment to get to the supposedly infringing bits.
- softbuilder 13y ago>and another 80s movie I'm too twentysomething to recognize Not one, but several other movies, including at least Pretty In Pink, Footloose, and Mannequin.
- aspensmonster 13y agoSeeing as I can't edit my own post anymore, this is the first remix of the remix mentioned by Lessig in the talk (the one showcasing Brooklyn): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ywFh2AZLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ywFh2AZLg I'd suggest clicking "Show More" underneath the description to see the numerous remixes for other localities that have been made. Also, I found this quote in the description: >Update 1: We met with Glassnote Records and they loved it! They said Phoenix dug it too! Digging around, it seems Glassnote records is an American label, and Liberation Music is an Australian label. From what I can tell, it seems that Glassnote records hold the rights to the song, and Phoenix is under the Glassnote label: http://glassnotemusic.com/profile/Phoenix http://glassnotemusic.com/profile/Phoenix Does Liberation Music have a distribution deal with Glassnote? Is one a subsidiary of the other? Now I don't even know if Liberation Music actually had standing to file a DMCA claim at all. I should go to law school. Edit: Even my hometown of Austin has one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAM0rb8vswU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAM0rb8vswU .