We will never know what this was all about. YouTube pulled it due to “a copyright claim by Fun or Die, Inc.” Everybody seems to be jumping on this copyright bandwagon which is basically crap.
In this country a patent is a hard thing to get, it typically takes thousands of dollars and several years and even then the patent office may throw it out as not being sufficiently innovative. To copyright something, one only needs to stick a copyright notice on it.
To date I have not seen one clip on YouTube that I would classify as great cinema yet everybody seems to be rushing to pull their masterpiece works off the web. I can only conclude that Fun or Die, Inc. is planning on marketing this 1 minute clip through Viacom and it will available for me to rent at my nearest Blockbuster soon.
I wonder if Cho Seung-Hui copyrighted the video he sent to NBC so his parents will be able to sue for royalties.
(c)Dennis R. Dinsmore, 2007. All rights reserved. May not be used without the express written consent of the National Football League.
I originally tried to post the Funny or Die video and it insisted on starting automatically the minute my homepage loaded up, so I replaced it with the YouTube version. I learned today that Funny or Die is owned by some multizillion dollar venture capitalist firm: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2007/04/landlordmckay. They apparently didn’t spend anything on their site design.
If you haven’t seen anything on YouTube that you would classify as great cinema, then you clearly haven’t seen “Mr. Poop and Mr. Pickles”: http://youtube.com/watch?v=QftJz-Qmaw0.
They may have pulled it off Youtube but go to Funnyordie.com and you can watch that video along with the Alec Baldwin/ Dora the Explorer video. Both very funny…..
April 19th, 2007 at 7:16 am
We will never know what this was all about. YouTube pulled it due to “a copyright claim by Fun or Die, Inc.” Everybody seems to be jumping on this copyright bandwagon which is basically crap.
In this country a patent is a hard thing to get, it typically takes thousands of dollars and several years and even then the patent office may throw it out as not being sufficiently innovative. To copyright something, one only needs to stick a copyright notice on it.
To date I have not seen one clip on YouTube that I would classify as great cinema yet everybody seems to be rushing to pull their masterpiece works off the web. I can only conclude that Fun or Die, Inc. is planning on marketing this 1 minute clip through Viacom and it will available for me to rent at my nearest Blockbuster soon.
I wonder if Cho Seung-Hui copyrighted the video he sent to NBC so his parents will be able to sue for royalties.
(c)Dennis R. Dinsmore, 2007. All rights reserved. May not be used without the express written consent of the National Football League.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I originally tried to post the Funny or Die video and it insisted on starting automatically the minute my homepage loaded up, so I replaced it with the YouTube version. I learned today that Funny or Die is owned by some multizillion dollar venture capitalist firm: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2007/04/landlordmckay. They apparently didn’t spend anything on their site design.
If you haven’t seen anything on YouTube that you would classify as great cinema, then you clearly haven’t seen “Mr. Poop and Mr. Pickles”: http://youtube.com/watch?v=QftJz-Qmaw0.
Be afraid for the future of our world.
May 11th, 2007 at 9:42 am
They may have pulled it off Youtube but go to Funnyordie.com and you can watch that video along with the Alec Baldwin/ Dora the Explorer video. Both very funny…..
May 11th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Mr. Poop and Mr. Pickles is so bad there is now a second episode. Interesting that the non-video video got more comments than anything on this page.