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Sony File DMCA On Creative Commons Film

posted by janrinok on Sunday April 06 2014, @11:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-wrong-can-you-be? dept.

lhsi writes:

If prizes were being issued for bogus DMCA take-down notices, then Sony would be in with a good chance. Sony have filed a DMCA notice on a creative commons movie created in Blender that is on YouTube, claiming copyright reasons.

If prizes were being handed out for the "best" wrongful DMCA takedown likely to annoy the greatest numbers of people, Sony would be taking Olympic gold here.

  • Free and open source software - check.
  • Multiple instances of community funding via donation - check.
  • Creative Commons content censorship - check.
  • Blatantly claiming copyright on someone else's content - check.
  • Shoot first, ask questions later mentality - check.

The only good thing to come out of this as far as Blender is concerned is all the free publicity they're going to get in the next 48 hours. Bad publicity aside, *nothing* will happen to Sony - people aren't going to like that either.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Blackmoore on Monday April 07 2014, @03:18AM

    by Blackmoore (57) on Monday April 07 2014, @03:18AM (#27272) Journal

    Google's own documentation on the notices is pretty damning of the industry as a whole, with MOST of the DMCA takedown notices being sent out for material that they dont own. And then the process gets involved. see, they can basically stick a robot to send these out, and the subsequent follow up - as the real copyright holder typically doesnt have a lawyer or capital to pursue them in court.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by xlefay on Monday April 07 2014, @04:05AM

    by xlefay (65) on Monday April 07 2014, @04:05AM (#27287) Journal

    So essentially, from what I'm gathering here (previously, I just ignored these kind of articles), it's all just bullying the little guy and giving in when one stands it's ground.. what a great world we live in eh ;-)

    • (Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Monday April 07 2014, @12:54PM

      by Blackmoore (57) on Monday April 07 2014, @12:54PM (#27432) Journal

      yup. with out a tool in the law itself to punish companies (or individuals) who make continuous false flags - you have a law which punishes creators, at the expense of big media. and big media loves it this way - after all if anyone could make entertainment, it would decrease shareholder value, and they might have to find new directors or actually film stuff that doesnt fit the (worn out) formula.