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BV · 02-21-2006, 12:12 AM

Well that is the problem, if you don't register your copyrights before the infringement occurs then you are not entiltled to lawyer fees, just damages.

If registration is made within 3 months after publication of the work or prior to an infringement of the work, statutory damages and attorney's fees will be available to the copyright owner in court actions. Otherwise, only an award of actual damages and profits is available to the copyright owner.

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html

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Originally Posted by SilentKnight

All of which goes to say - the logistics alone of mounting a legal attack would be next-to futile.

Even *IF* you had filed your copyrights with the Library of Congress, laboriously combed through the entire Guba catalogue, carefully recording and matching stolen content......you'd still be left with the financial burden of hiring lawyers, flying back and forth to court dates, spending an enormous amount of lost production time attending court, etc.

Who in their right mind would even briefly consider that as an option?

FightThisPatent · 02-21-2006, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by BV

Those videos are submitted by the copyright holders.

The Google Video Upload program lets anyone who owns the necessary rights (including copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity, and any other relevant rights for your content) submit videos electronically to Google Video.

i have seen futurama videos on google (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=futurama) .. i don't think matt koenig gave permission for it.

Fight the bender!

CDSmith · 02-21-2006, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by chadglni

So for the 20th time they bitch at Lensman about letting them advertise here. Now I don't know about you, but I get the impression Lensman doesn't give a flying fuck. But hey, I could be wrong of course.

I hear you. I think Lens gives a fuck but I don't think it's capable of flying.... so I in part agree with you on that. :D

After all, the skin was removed. One could infer that it was due to the uproar it caused. Or not.

I'll conclude my posting for tonight by saying that I find GUBA's concept to be quite innovative in an opportunistic kind of way, but I'm sorry, I'm just not comforatable with the idea of a second entity making money by selling memberships to people to view MY content and I don't see a dime from it. Spin it any which way it can be spun, I don't see that ever sitting well with the average pay site owner, content producer, or affiliate program owner.

But you're right, if all these threads are just so much empty bitching with no teeth then we're all reduced to reaping the rewards of the almighty sig views.

Goodnight all.

baddog · 02-21-2006, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by CaptainHowdy

the GFY nick is lesbodojo i think...

yeah, that's right, she owns it

FightThisPatent · 02-21-2006, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by CDSmith

But you're right, if all these threads are just so much empty bitching with no teeth then we're all reduced to reaping the rewards of the almighty sig views.

copyrights, trademarks, and patents... what joy it is to have deal with the litigation (whether as a defendant or plantiff).

Fight the paper tigers!