Wonderful photoset of photos from the Calfornia ghost town called Bodie. Link. Above, a decaying '37 Chevy. NYT editorial on Matt and Trey's groundbreaking South Park profit-share deal with Viacom: Link. A must-read. Watershed moment here, guys. Lost in translation: Poagao tells BoingBoing, "A sports paraphernalia store in Taiwan was originally called 'Nigger King' and [...]

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Christopher Knight made three commercials as part of his campaign to run for a seat on the Rockingham County Board of Education. He posted them on YouTube. Viacom's VH1 ran one of the commercials on its show Web Junk 2.0, without seeking Knight's permission. Knight then posted the Web Junk 2.0 segment on YouTube. Yesterday, [...]

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Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made by infringing on my own copyright!  —  "Chutzpah" is a Yiddish word meaning "unbelievable gall or audacity".  An example of it would be the story of the kid who murders both of his parents …

Source:   The Knight Shift
Author: [...]

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OMG!  MySpace and MTV do, like, politics  —  At first, it sounds a little bit like playing catch-up to the much-ballyhooed CNN-YouTube debates; on Thursday, Viacom's (VIAB) MTV and News Corp's (NWS) MySpace are scheduled to announce a series of one-on-one dialogues with each of the major Democratic …

Source:   The Browser: Analyzing the [...]

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YouTube wants to depose Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart  —  Let's see how funny Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are on the witness stand.  —  The two comedians are apparently being dragged into the copyright fight between their employer and Google.  Entertainment conglomerate Viacom …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Greg Sandoval
Link:   http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759091-7.html
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Viacom is suing YouTube for 1 billion dollars.  That is Billion with a B.  Based on the 160,000 copyright violations and 1.5 billion views of those uploads, this seems a bit large.  That would allege that each viewer of the average 5 minute clip is worth about 75 cents.  I wish that a viewer was [...]

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My GOOD Friends at the Electronic Freedom Foundation are looking for any of the 100,000 users that had their content taken down as a result of the Viacom Legal attack.
Among the 100,000 videos targeted for takedowns was a home movie shot in a BBQ joint, a film trailer by a documentarian, and a music video [...]

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