#Shred video for free#
#Shred video series#

WIRED blog Underwire – whichĪlong with Listening Post has covered the situation in a number of Thankfully, there are others who are willing to take a court, which necessarily involves significant if not crippling costs and inconvenience.

Unrealistic to expect this to offer much solace to U.S.-based content creators who can'tĪfford to defend a case in federal court and foreign content creators like Ojala who don't want to submit to the jurisdiction of a U.S.

#Shred video for free#

Theoretically allows us to take a stand for free speech, it is Native of Finland, you can be sure this is not an attractive prospect. He cannot get his content put back up without sending a counter-notice, and he can't send a counter-notice without placing himself at the mercy of the U.S. Without a voluntarily agreement, such as automatic consent under the DMCA, there would probably be no way to sue Ojala in the U.S.

Ojala also would have had to agree to accept service of process from the person who sent the original copyright complaint (see 17 U.S.C. In order to send a counter-notice, however, Ojala would have had to agree to the jurisdiction of the federal district court in the district where YouTube is located. It's even likely that the guitarists wouldn't have pursued a claim at all. § 512(g), YouTube would have been legally required to do so – at least in order to stay in the safe harbor against wrongful takedown liability – and it is unlikely that the guitarists would have prevailed if they would have pursued a claim in federal court. If Ojala had sent a counter-notice asking that the videos be put back up pursuant to 17 U.S.C. That Ojala would have a strong fair use defense to the guitarists' copyright claims. These videos are clear examples of parody, which means Takedown notice framework, especially as it pertains to foreign content creators This situation highlights one of the problems with the DMCA Lawyer and appeal the artists' infringement claims.' Google as saying that this would require that Ojala 'hire a Not taken action to reinstate his account Listening Post quotes Infringement claims filed against them.' At this point Ojala has Policy of disabling accounts that have 'multiple copyright Post, a blog, YouTube's parent company Google has a

In response, YouTube took down the videos andĭisabled Ojala's account. Regarding the videos, which appear to have come from artists that In January or February, YouTube recieved three complaints Performed a live parody of a Slash concert video on the show. Same episode of Jimmy Kimmel's show, jammed with Ojala after Ojala Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, who was a guest on the Player magazine, and the Jimmy Kimmel Live! television show,Īmong others. Well-executed enough to warrant attention from WIRED, Of the guitarists' rock-star stage antics and “rockin” facialĮxpressions with Ojala's amateurish noodling was humorous and Treatment – in one notable clip, Ozzy Osbourne's clapping to theīeat is reduced to a rhythmless patter that wouldn't have cut it in aīackyard birthday celebration, much less a rock show. Other rock stars unwary enough toĮnter the screen during the guitarists' performances get similar Skilled guitar player himself, the horrific sounds matchĬlosely with the guitar hero's hand and finger movements, which makes Performances with his own (intentionally) bad guitar playing. Ojala replaces the audio tracks of the guitarists' Legendary guitarists such as Steve Vai, Carlos Santana, and EricĬlapton. Which Finnish media artist Santeri Ojala overdubs performances of

#Shred video series#

Works, known as the “shred” videos, are a series of parodies in Were pulled from YouTube over dubious copyright claims. Some of the most creative and entertaining parody videos on the Web