Posted on 07/31/2007 12:04:37 AM PDT by Talking_Mouse
A single bottle broke the calm, shattering in the late-afternoon sun. Then another...and another.
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Bob Tur, a pilot and photojournalist, hovered above the unfolding chaos in his helicopter, along with his copilot, his camerawoman wife, his lawyer, and a 9mm semiautomatic pistol... There was Larry Tarvin, who was pulled from his truck and kicked in the ribs, shoulder, and face. That's when the shots started. Tur's chopper began taking hits as the throng below pummeled another trucker, Reginald Denny, with a cement block, a tire iron, and a fire extinguisher.
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Over the years, he estimates, the Denny tape has generated about $5 million in licensing fees. But Tur has spent almost an equal amount filing lawsuits to protect his content. All of which led to the day last spring when he happened upon an article in The Wall Street Journal about an upstart video-sharing Website whose users were uploading clips of dogs skateboarding and grandmothers belching and, oh yeah, copyrighted news footage. Tur logged on and, after two clicks, watched his Denny video. A few weeks later, like a small bottle tossed before the mob of big entertainment companies like Viacom began their battle for control of digital media, Tur became the first person to sue YouTube for copyright infringement.
Tur wants YouTube shuttered until its parent company, Google, can guarantee his videos and other copyrighted content won't reappear after being taken down. And even if there's a filtering technology out there that really works (despite Google's April announcement of such a technology, Tur is skeptical), he wants a court to say the law doesn't shield YouTube-like services, so he's protected from whatever site becomes the next big thing...
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*I* have copyrighted images being used without *my* permission and Yahoo won’t do squat about it.
The person using the photos just -renames- them when Yahoo tells her to pull them, they don't follow-up and she can conceivably keep pulling that trick forever.
Should I sue to have Yahoo’s plug pulled?
Sheesh.
Hey, if you won’t protect your copywrited material why blame somebody who tries to?
Reginald Denny was attacked in 1992. The law lets copyrights
run too long.
A really interesting thing about the case is that Football Williams should have been put in prison for at least 20 years. He wasn’t. Not too long after this event, he murdered someone. Had he done the time he should have, he would not have been on the street to commit the murder. Funny how it works sometimes.
HERE’S THE STORY
Riots participant sentenced in murder case
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man convicted of felony mayhem for a televised attack on trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in prison for a drug dealer’s murder.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis B. Rappe also ordered Damian Williams, 30, to serve an additional 21 years in prison for a firearm theft charge and other violations.
Williams served four years of a 10-year term after he was convicted of felony mayhem for throwing a brick on Denny’s head as the riots began.
Denny was pulled out of a big rig at Florence and Normandie avenues on April 29, 1992, a short time after a state jury in Simi Valley acquitted four white Los Angeles police officers accused of beating black motorist Rodney King.
Williams denied he was the person caught on videotape attacking Denny.
Williams did not comment during Friday’s sentencing hearing.
You know the LameStream Media loves to do "follow ups" on victims, but I haven't heard or seen of one on Reginald.
I wonder why....
If the networks and movie studios aren’t killing youtube, how will this guy?
Google is in a “safe harbor”. Tur will lose.
What nonsense. I assume Tur is also suing all makers of video tape, video cameras, VCRs, and any other piece of technology capable of copying his video because they haven’t provided means of ensuring that his video won’t be copied unless he gets paid? Hell, let’s just roll back all innovation and technological advancement and live perpetually with 1965 technology to appease the insane demands of US copyright law.
This lawsuit troll will get nowhere. Guys like this are just one step up from slip and fall artists, IMHO.
What the hell are you talking about?
If you’ll -carefully- reread what I wrote, I *am* trying to protect -2- of my copyrighted photos.
I am NOT trying to take down an entire company, thereby depriving the rest of the world of legitmately posted videos.
I couldn’t care less if he pulls the Denny videos but his aim is to apparently eliminate the service -entirely- because they have no way of “guaranteeing” his videos won’t be reposted.
Are you truly unable to see the huge difference?
Now what he wants a lifetime of income for participating in the production of what easily could have been a snuff film?
This is from Wikipedia, so I can’t vouch for it, but:
Paramedics who attended to Denny said he came very close to death. His skull was fractured in ninety-one places and pushed into the brain. His left eye was so badly dislocated that it would have fallen into his sinus cavity had the surgeons not replaced the crushed bone with a piece of plastic. A permanent crater remains in his head despite efforts to correct it. Denny currently lives in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where he is a self-employed boat motor mechanic.
Problem is that the DMCA can be used like a shield. You MUST send a letter (”takedown notice”) and give the person or company a chance to respond, before you can make any other claims.
“A really interesting thing about the case is that Football Williams should have been put in prison for at least 20 years. He wasn’t. Not too long after this event, he murdered someone.”
He killed a drug dealer and is now in prison for 30 years. That’s called a 2fer.
If the material, whether a video clip or an audio recording, was authorized to be broadcast over the public airways, it becomes public domain after that broadcast.
This guy is trying to live off the video like it was Mickey Mouse or something. Congress has extended the length and extent of copyrights too far, especially as applied to news.
Anyone who has won 5 times in front of the 9th Circuit is a force to contend with.
How many times has Google won? Oh yeah, none.
He has the law with him, but the law is wrong.
So what should the time limit be on protected work?
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