SEC Did It Again

[Dawgzilla]

Parody is a defense to copyright infringement, but the parody has to actually be some type of social commentary, or a criticism of the original work.

 

[TX Mud Dawg]

Its always the first thing I include in the description box. Now our videos are no where near as good as Derek's and most of them are of short video clips of plays and etc. What I loved so much about your videos is that you include all the footage of the fans and players that the TV cameras never get.

 

[Chesusdog]

I'd really like to see this one. I enjoyed your work last season. Good luck at EMCC.

 

[KennyPowers2]

As I think most people would be pretty bored by it. I never heard that a court ruled on the "Hitler Finds Out" vidoes...if one has I would really appreciate a ]While this video actually helps the SEC rather than harm it, what if someone else did a similar video intended to make fun of MSU? The SEC wouldn't want that[/b], and if they allow this video to stand they would also have to allow a mocking video to stand.

I'm just curious about how hard the SEC is policing this. If you just watched the video on Youtube, the sidebar with other suggestions is nothing but videos using the SEC's copyrighted material. Do they just ignore that on their computer screens?

Are you sure about that???

 

[FlabLoser]

Fans could re-distribute, re-post (on youtube, not Taiwanese porn sites) the SEC into submission.

 

[FlabLoser]

A football game is a live performance. The one presenting the live performance automatically owns a copyright in all images produced from that live performance. In this case, the SEC, MSU and the opposing school own the copyright. The person shooting the images also has copyright in their own specific images, but they need the permission of the SEC and MSU to reproduce those images.

The real question is why you appear to be singled out in this. If the SEC is truly being selective in its enforcement, then it could lose its copyright protection. I presume the SEC would claim they are going after every video they have knowledge of, but if that's true then they aren't looking very hard.

because I think the SEC would lose. Fair use allows for "transformative" use of copyright material.

Devil's advocate here - Google (youtube) is not in this for fair use. They intend to make a profit by distributing everything on youtube. They'll overlay ads on it and profit for distributing copyrighted material without permission.

Maybe its not Guy they have issues with. Maybe its Youtube. Just a hunch - maybe Guy's videos have a way higher hit count than the other "pirated" MSU videos - and that is drawing the attention.