http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4742650Oh my.
It's been years and years, it seems, since the Faye primitive's been around.
The Faye primitive, from New Jersey, is a cherubic chub with massive tattoos, who always hung around with the Bostonian Drunkard when someone paid for a first-class ticket to, and first-class accommodations, in Washington, D.C.
It's reasonable to assume the Faye primitive, unlike the Bostonian Drunkard, had to pay her expenses of travel and lodging herself.
The Faye primitive was really big into that Gosch-Gannon nonsense, along with the Bostonian Drunkard and a certain, uh, late red round one.
Faye (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 09:28 AM
Original message
Our Election Fraud video removed from YouTube 
After only FOUR YEARS of being up on YouTube, with many many comments, the video made by dzika and me has been removed for copyright violation Apparently because of the song we used. It was Butterflies & Hurricanes by Muse - I put the credit on the page! It's not like we were making money off the video, shouldn't it be seen as a form of promotion for the band? WTF? YouTube sucks...there are sooooo many videos on there that use bands' songs. Pffft!
http://www.youtube.com/browse?&ytsession=LymXQFUSuxoI9K...
So if anyone is linking to the youtube video anymore, might as well remove your link. The strange thing is, the youtube video still works on my huffingtonpost.com page:
http://stolenelection2004.cf.huffingtonpost.com / I would think it wouldn't still work since YouTube removed it? Weird.
Anyway, I'm kinda pissed, but oh well...funny it took them 4 years to notice :/
Ms. Toad (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 09:44 AM
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1. Hmm...
Let's say you have a band, someone likes one of your songs and uses it as background music for a fond retrospective look at the Bush years - and they give you credit. Would that make you happy? Isn't it a form of promotion for your band?
Faye (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 09:45 AM
Response to Reply #1
2. not really sure what you're saying....but I can say for sure the band itself is pretty liberal and political, and NOT supporters of Bush, and the video is NOT 'fond' of Bush...I'm kind of confused...
LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 09:48 AM
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3. If you had gotten permission from the band that might had prevented the removal.
Cleita (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 10:09 AM
Response to Reply #3
5. Yes, that's the first thing you have to do is get the written permission of any band's music to use it first. That goes for art work and other artistic properties too.
D__S (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 09:50 AM
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4. I've noticed that lately...
YouTube has been getting more aggressive about copyright violations.
There have been times when videos were removed within an hour or two after being posted.
For awhile, there was one YouTube regular who took great pride in and boasted about looking for and reporting TOS violators (I'm not certain if he's still around though).
You're right about the randomness and arbitrary deletions.
mod mom (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 10:24 AM
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6. Sorry Faye, I believe it can be linked through Velvet Revolution as well.
I posted it recentely to a list serv, I'll have to look for that link. Thank you again for the video!
mod mom (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 10:30 AM
Response to Reply #6
7. Here you go:
http://www.VelvetRevolution.us/#020505
drm604 (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 10:50 AM
Response to Original message
8. It doesn't work on the Huffington page.
Probably the reason it worked for you was because your browser had it buffered. When I try to play it from that page I get a message saying that it was removed for copyright violations.
Can you add a different soundtrack, with public domain music, and put it back up? That won't fix all of the currently broken links but at least it will be available.
uberllama42 (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 10:50 AM
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9. I don't really understand why those chose to take down your video in particular
If you had made a video with "B&H" playing over pics of the guys in the band, I don't think there would have been any problem. There are tons of videos like that all over the place. Does YouTube have guidelines about political videos? I've never posted a video myself so I don't know.
MUSE is my favorite band, BTW.
Crisco (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-31-08 10:52 AM
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10. Labels Crack Down On That - Especially Majors
Via the internet, labels have been in the process of setting themselves up to replace radio and MTV (which they already made irrelevant by controlling playlists with their promotional budgets) as the filter source where your music is going to come from.
If you've been paying attention, you've probably already noticed some music videos that have advertising layovers across the image. That's the labels making money, and that's why they won't allow you to use a music piece they have distribution or copyrights over.
