Copyright Trolls Steal All the Fun...

[RamboIV]

Ugh! I just received and email stating that I have violated the copyrights of Cass Country in my Eagles: History and Critiques series and youtube has taken down the entire series and given me a second "strike" against my youtube account -- the first strike was a VERY poor quality, 30 second cell phone video of "Boys of Summer" from the Eagles Milwaukee concert in September.

So now my whole series, which had a total over 60,000 views on youtube has been blocked. And I do not believe it will be coming back. Now, I know I technically violated copyright, but isn't there a "fair use" law that enables me to use video and audio for a review like mine? Either way, I've heard that Henley's publisher is doing some sort of crackdown and my videos haven't been the only ones hit. I imagine this is what happens when he isn't busy with the Eagles...

Well, I didn't put months of work into that series just so they could delete it. I'll be reposting the videos eventually at Dailymotion (where the Full length Part VII video currently is) and maybe blip. Otherwise, I believe I have found a glitch -- if you click "play" on the embedded videos on my introduction thread, it seems you can still watch them. It is probably only a matter of time before that stops working too.

Anyone else having similar problems?

[AzEaglesFan]

Sorry Rambo but they are all gone or I just can't get them to work

[EagleLady]

Youtube Sucks when they take down good videos.

[Freypower]

It's Cass County Music, Don's publshing company,that wanted them taken down. You cannnot blame YouTube for complying. I notice that Red Cloud Music doesn't seem bothered.

[EagleLady]

I blame The company that wanted them taken down. How do they expect people to listen to their artists if they don't want their videos on Youtube?

[Freypower]

Yes, EL, but that isn't what you said. You said 'YouTube sucks when they take down videos' as if it were YouTube's fault.

And it is Don's company that we are talking about here. Nobody else's.

[EagleLady]

If Youtube wanted to, they'd refuse to Pull videos.

ETA: It doesn't matter whose company it is. It is horse manure either way

[Freypower]

And be threatened with a massive lawsuit?

[EagleLady]

It'd be worth it to me. No one wants to buy a CD Without first listening to the songs, and they can't do it without Youtube

[Freypower]

And how many of the songs on Expando are on YouTube? Precisely none.

If I want a CD I don't need to see a video to decide that I want it. This was the case both for Expando and the new Knopfler album. I didn't even look to see if there were any new Knopfler videos on YouTube before I ordered it (and I still haven't looked). If you like an artist enough, you don't need YouTube. I am older than you - I am from the era when videos were not necessary for you to decide whether or not you liked a song or wanted to buy an album.