On 13 Aug 2010, at 22:08, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Don't imagine for one second that this is unique. I've even seen cases where the marketing department of a record label uploaded videos to YouTube, and the legal department then made DMCA claims and had their own videos removed. (I can't find the link right now, sorry.)
If you find the link, please send it to me. Sounds really funny/stupid.
http://boingboing.net/2010/03/18/youtube-viacom-secre.html
"Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself."
Jonas