On Notice: MyHeavy.com
Our friends at G14 Productions informed us today that MyHeavy has been infringing on our Creative Commons license. As a result, I notified the Yahoo Videoblogging Group of the injustice, submitted the story to Digg and sent an e-mail to MyHeavy to rectify their mistake:
Subject: Notice of Copyright Infringement
Dear MyHeavy,
I wish to inform you that you have been illegally re-posting our content on MyHeavy.com. Galacticast (http://www.galacticast.com) is a web video show that is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/), which means:
- Attribution – There must be a link back to our original post at Galacticast.com
- Non-Commercial – You may not make profit from re-distributing our work (unless we have signed a pre-arranged licensing agreement)
- Share Alike – Our content must be re-distributed under an identical license.
MyHeavy has violated all three of the above clauses by not linking to our site, profiting by banner ad sales placed before and during our videos and by re-releasing our show under a “Copyright MyHeavy” license instead of the required identical Creative Commons license.
It has come to our attention that you have also infringed on the copyrights of other web video producers using other web hosts (Blip TV and Google Video) by re-posting their content without their knowledge. Be assured that we have already informed everybody in the Videoblogging community about this.
Please contact us to establish a licensing agreement. Otherwise, take this as notice to remove our content immediately. We expect you to reply directly to us (biz@galacticast.com) or to Mike Hudack at Blip TV (mike@blip.tv) within 24 hours.
Please note that a copy of this e-mail is being posted at http://www.galacticast.com.
Regards,
Casey McKinnon
Executive Producer, Galacticast
Web: http://www.galacticast.com/
E-mail: biz@galacticast.com
Phone: ###-###-####
Keep us posted on this… I’m 16 digests behind in the videoblogging group, so I can’t follow many threads there anymore.
Just saw this on the Yahoo group. Good on you Casey. Yes, keep us posted.
Sad to see these people trying to profit from you, and other video producers. Be very nice to see a happy ending to this.
How do you know they posted it themselves, and not their users? They seem to have a “flag content” button, like any other site like that. Have you tried going through their interface to remove it?
Never mind my question – just read the videoblogging group thread on this.
1 suggestion, when blogging someone who is doing something evil, don’t link to them. Links generate referrals & trackbacks which help ad revenue. For the lowlife swine out there, most of us don’t want to visit them anyway, so let the few who do retype or copy/paste their URL.
great work casey, this is freakin ridiculous!
Ah those that can’t create PIMP others.
This crap is why so many great ideas are not shared with the world.
Fight ‘em as best you can. If any one should get payed for your effort it is you guys . Far as I know the only thing you get is that warm fuzzy feeling that there are a few people out here that wait for your latest clip and respond in a positive maner. [The only way you can make the stuff you do is by releasing it under the licence you use.]Now I’m on a rant here.I come to this site to feel good about the world I seek a shared inside joke relive the built up anger within. Now I find out that you guys are getting reamed. Just one more tip of the scales in favour of to hell with the rest of the world.You have to look very hard to see good in the world most of the time and these weasles just add into it.Casey /Rudy My “limited” suport is with you as always.
That’s really funny, that some people think, they can do, whatever they want to.
Sites like Heavy piss me off. Not only are they stealing content, but advertisements are crammed in your face with thier clunky interface.
Best of luck to Casey and the rest of Galacticast! You guys are amazing.
[...] First, Casey McKinnon, of sci-fi comedy videoblog Galacticast, blogged about the incident and shared the news on the Yahoo! Videoblogging group, a popular discussion group for folks in the space. The discussion heated up quickly. The videobloggers sent emails, blogged about the issue, considered legal action and discussed organizing to protect themselves. Mike Hudack, CEO of Blip.tv reached out to MyHeavy on the videobloggers’ behalf and MyHeavy took the videos down. This wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. Another video site, Veoh faced similar accusations last year. [...]
I could easily draw from an old cliché, urging: “You Go Girl!” But that seems demeaning to someone I have found to be a real (grown-up) lady of enormous talent, intelligence, beauty, and as you now demonstrate.. dogged piss & vinegar.
Our paths crossing briefly greatly enriched my life.. and I am certain MyHeavy will gain an equal (albeit painful) enlightened state.
Glad someone is finally taking on these parasititic profiteers who only ride on the hard earned tickets of others. Off with the scoundrels’ head… and less heavy body parts! ?
it thinks canadian and humour and colour are misspellings! bloody amero-centrics! love your stuff!
maybe a “bug” like the tv people use (fullscreen tho), 15 seconds in, in a bright colour, that you can use code to cancel, so at least ppl get your URL if nothing else from the thieves…
btw, global bit doesn’t load and did the copyright cops “kill”
your nanny and found bits?
nice