Youtube is doing a quite phenomenal effort in dealing with copyright infringement these days, summarized here:
“In those cases, we try to give people options when they receive a copyright claim. Instead of automatically blocking videos, we give uploaders the choice to dispute the claim (in the case of Fair Use, for example), use our AudioSwap tool to replace the track with one from our library of pre-cleared music, or to replace the video with a new version with no sound.” #
The article, from which that quote is taken, covers a lot of the same ground as what Flickr is facing, and despite the fact that it may not be easy for Vidal to get his video back up, or even get Viacom to tell him what exactly it violates, at least the video wasn’t simply deleted from his account. If only others — and by others I specifically mean Flickr, though I know that Vimeo shares this approach — would do the same instead of blanket deleting everything with no option for recovery.
For the first time in four years, I’ve let my flickr pro account expire, as I still haven’t heard anything back regarding the copyright infringement case from support, despite my best efforts at getting in touch with someone — anyone — who can tell my just how they can defend having deleted images that shouldn’t have been affected by the copyright claim from Lucasfilm.
Four years, and I can’t even get an answer out of them? I know I sound like a broken record, but I’m just flabbergasted that I’m unable to even get a ‘Hey Mike, got your mail, I’ll get back to your asap and I hope this isn’t causing you too much grief’-mail.
I mean, is it really worth it for Flickr that I bitch and whine about this here, on twitter and even in real life? That I can’t conciously recommend Flickr to anyone anymore without adding a ‘but, you should also know that…’.
I love flickr.
This sucks.
The holidays bring the amazing wonder of a fixed feed (no more raw textile markup), non-invisible pages, working search, a lifestream and some polish on the theme here and there. Hell, the about page even has my e-mail address on it, so people can go ahead and contact me directly, instead of having to go through flickr.
Now, speaking of flickr, it has now been two weeks since my sizable Star Wars collection was removed from flickr.
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