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ABS-CBN Pulls Down Interviewee’s YouTube Clip. And Her Little Dog, Too.
YouTube just launched a video identification system that gives copyright holders a choice: either automatically block their videos, or automatically profit from them. It’s an IQ test.
Unfortunately, Philippine TV network ABS-CBN is too dumb to even take that IQ test.
Filipino blogger Jepoy Bengero had his aunt and her dog interviewed on an ABS-CBN show last year. He uploaded a blurry phonecam clip of interview to YouTube at his aunt’s request. One year later, ABS-CBN has it pulled down.
The lesson here: don’t ever work with ABS-CBN. TV dinosaurs act like they own you. They let some dumb intern issue frivolous takedown notices based on nothing but badly-constructed keyword searches — without any regard for interviewees, fair use, context, or even accuracy.
Level Up Machinima Contest on YouTube
Unlike last year, Philippine game publisher Level Up now accepts entries for its annual machinima contest via YouTube. Smart move. Here’s one of the entries, from RF Online.
Next year, they might want to try YouTube’s contest system. I’d use a canonical event tag to folksonomically link this post to their upcoming event, but they haven’t set one yet.
(Via Mon Macutay.)
