Comments on North By East West: Boycott Sony for the Holidays

I did a review of "A Child's Christmas in...

2009-12-10T17:46:34.045-08:00

I did a review of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" last night in Smithers. I could have put parts of it on Youtube BUT..the producer/actor in the piece did NOT have permission to use the book photos that were used as part of the multi media theatrical piece..so I aquiesced on principle and just posted photos of the event with the article. Ya can't be none too careful with regards to exploiting someone else's work! Here is my review of the evening for those interested..it had some great accordion & Cello music that unfortunately I couldn't post because it was being played while I took vids of the media presentation! Grrrr

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4779124-a-childs-christmas-in-smithers

They also could have contacted Colin directly, tol...

2009-12-10T15:48:50.502-08:00

They also could have contacted Colin directly, told him what they had a problem with and he could have done a re-edit. I think that's in the works anyway, but it's difficult right now as neither Sony nor YouTube have told them what exactly they have a problem with.

My guess would be it is the Ninja Turtles thing, w...

2009-12-10T15:34:01.460-08:00

My guess would be it is the Ninja Turtles thing, which may technically give them some rights, but in the church of public opinion this is a really clumsy thing to do. It's a scorched-earth policy, and if they go after every 2 second shot of anything they own any part of, they're going to generate a lot of negative feelings for very weak reasons.

I'm not ignoring you Cal - if you're right...

2009-12-10T13:54:40.135-08:00

I'm not ignoring you Cal - if you're right, if it's a half second of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles view-master slide and that caused them to have the video pulled and Colin's account jeopardized - it changes nothing. Sony should publicly apologize and ask YouTube to fully reinstate Colin's account.

I like how everyone ignores me in favour of anger....

2009-12-10T13:48:28.553-08:00

I like how everyone ignores me in favour of anger.

When's that next Spider-Man movie comin...

2009-12-10T13:09:33.912-08:00

When's that next Spider-Man movie coming out?

This is complete BS on Sony's part, you've...

2009-12-10T09:36:09.561-08:00

This is complete BS on Sony's part, you've got me in on this boycott. Sony won't get a cent from me!

I have a Sony laptop that I would like to throw ou...

2009-12-10T07:21:29.326-08:00

I have a Sony laptop that I would like to throw out the window.

@Mark - I doubt it was automatic, the video has be...

2009-12-10T06:12:19.948-08:00

@Mark - I doubt it was automatic, the video has been up for months.

Maybe it's because of that blatant flash of Te...

2009-12-09T21:29:26.736-08:00

Maybe it's because of that blatant flash of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the beginning?

YouTube has an automatic system for checking copyr...

2009-12-09T20:24:57.617-08:00

YouTube has an automatic system for checking copyright infringement. It isn't always right. The system basically takes a snippet from a video and compares the audio and video of everything uploaded to YouTube against it. It is possible that the video was pulled because YouTube's robots thought the song was another song owned by Sony. This could be what happened.

This is ridiculous! I, for one, am outraged

2009-12-09T19:53:29.177-08:00

This is ridiculous! I, for one, am outraged

That's so lame. Bullies.

2009-12-09T19:41:50.476-08:00

That's so lame. Bullies.

Apparently not - at least not when it's a majo...

2009-12-09T19:11:21.343-08:00

Apparently not - at least not when it's a major label.

What copyrighted work are they being accused of in...

2009-12-09T19:02:35.403-08:00

What copyrighted work are they being accused of infringing? Doesn't Youtube check these things out before pulling videos?