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Is plagiarism protected by copyright law?

Viacom demanded that Youtube took down a video from a TV show on VH1 that pastes together Youtube videos.

Youtube as usual rolled over, begging for a belly rub.

The issue however is that VH1 hadn't asked the copyright owner of the video featured in its show hadn't asked for permission. As Fark.com summarized so eloquently:

"Man posts video about his video on YouTube. Viacom pulls video about their video about his video because of copyright violations, even though they violated his copyright by using his video in their video."

It time to put those lawyers at the RIAA to good use. We finally have a waterproof case of copyright violation.

The video that Viacom decided to brand as its own

August 31, 2007 at 01:41 AM | Permalink

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