**** Viacom - Page 3

**Crazyswordsman** · 08-04-2008, 10:33 PM

^Well, because some people were, illegally, putting up whole episodes of stuff. But in the fallout, a lot of legitimate fair uses of Viacom content, and videos which had no Viacom content at all, got taken down along with those that deserved to be. -CSM

wariovswario · 08-04-2008, 10:53 PM

^Can you provide such an example? Just one?

**Crazyswordsman** · 08-05-2008, 07:52 PM

Well, there was "The Happy Show" which did a parody of the Real World called "The Real Happy Life World." It was a parody, a satire, which didn't even use Viacom content. All it had was "The Real World" in the video description. Another one was using Stephen Colbert's material in an effort to analyze him. Critical analysis is fair use. Then there was, of course, the infamous case where VH1 took a video from YouTube and used it on its show for profit without permission from the creator, who then posted the VH1 clip and Viacom got that taken down (in other words, Viacom stole his content then demanded he not steal theirs), so there's three right there. -CSM

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08-05-2008, 07:52 PM	#43
Crazyswordsman RPG Mod Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Booyaville (yeah!) Gender: Posts: 8,578 Thanks: 633 Thanked 468 Times in 310 Posts Points: 166,862.08 Bank: 77,775.54 Total Points: 244,637.62 Donate	Well, there was "The Happy Show" which did a parody of the Real World called "The Real Happy Life World." It was a parody, a satire, which didn't even use Viacom content. All it had was "The Real World" in the video description. Another one was using Stephen Colbert's material in an effort to analyze him. Critical analysis is fair use. Then there was, of course, the infamous case where VH1 took a video from YouTube and used it on its show for profit without permission from the creator, who then posted the VH1 clip and Viacom got that taken down (in other words, Viacom stole his content then demanded he not steal theirs), so there's three right there. -CSM