Posted on 02/23/2022 12:31:16 PM PST by NohSpinZone
Andy Parker has tried seemingly everything to get videos of his daughter Alison Parker's murder wiped off social media platforms, where they spread after she was fatally shot while taping a live local news segment in 2015.
He has enlisted allies to find and report the clips to Facebook and YouTube, filed complaints with federal regulators against the companies and recently launched a congressional campaign focused in part on holding social media platforms accountable. Yet despite those efforts, copies of the footage remain online, some with tens of thousands of views.
Over the years, Andy Parker has run into a consistent hurdle: He doesn't own copyright of the footage, which can serve as an effective tool to force companies to remove infringing material.
Late last year, he devised a plan to get around that roadblock: He created an NFT, or non-fungible token, of the video.
"This is the Hail Mary," Parker said, an "act of desperation." Here's why:
The footage, which originally aired on CBS affiliate WDBJ, is owned by parent company Gray Television. The company has denied Parker's requests for joint copyright ownership, instead granting him a usage license aimed at letting him work with a nonprofit to get the videos taken down.
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Well, I assume he was doing it to protect the memory of his daughter for him.
You don't.
And trying to prevent other people from seeing it, you really can't.
I suppose everyone grieves in their own way but this is a odd one.
“so it can never be published?”
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Not legally, no. But that true of the video you see of it already, the TV station has the copyright to it. Same with prob 90% of stuff on youtube if you were to enforce copyright law without mercy. (Very few places do, tho)
“Andy Parker has run into a consistent hurdle: He doesn’t own copyright of the footage”
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I think the article mentioned the tv station has worked out some kind of deal with him on that. At any rate, who can do what is something likely the courts will have to sort out.
I can understand the reasoning by her dad on this account, it is disturbing for a parent esp to see that - but it can be crazy what you’re not supposed to show without permission:
“Trademark law stops people filming Hollywood Sign”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trademark-law-stops-people-filming-hollywood-sign-a6720311.html
My son died the day before Thanksgiving. If he had been shot, I most assuredly would NOT want that video online, so I understand the dad.
I don’t understand the legalities involved. and IMO, they don’t matter. A parent is a parent.
wonder what the Zapruder film would go for today then...
“wonder what the Zapruder film would go for today then”
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As a digital art thing, I expect it would be astronomical. I believe the 6th floor museum in Dallas owns it now, with LIFE mag having bought from Zapruder for $100,000 (if memory serves) way back in late 63.
I understand the feelings of a parent but you can not scrub history because of how you feel.
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