Fred Mastropasqua

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So I’m a daily reader of Slashdot and TechDirt, and all the time I read how the RIAA is suing everyone and YouTube is taking down fair use videos and the world is falling apart with Copyright. To make matters worse Obama is hiring RIAA lawyers at the DOJ, ugh.

So none of this really effected me before. I read it and I agreed about the ridiculousness of it and complained in my head and moved on, hoping one day I’d see that article that says things are turning around. Until about 5 minutes ago. I made a FAIR USE video, a fake movie trailer, starring my friend, my car and my special effects. My friend is doing the voice over and I have a music track playing in the background, which I’ve looped in the beginning. I’ve had this video on YouTube for about 3 years now.

So I was showing someone my video, it’s over on the right there “Revenge Trailer” and first video below, and I’m thinking where did the audio go? Very weird, so I go to the YouTube site for the same video, and low and behold  see a NOTICE message under my clip, “This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled.” WHAT!!??

The movie is crap now without the audio because the voice over is gone, the sound effects are gone. How embarrassing. Try watching your favorite show with no audio. It makes for a poor experience. I guess they thought this was better then taking it down.  Is there anyway to fight this or am I sol?

Here you can view the YouTube neutered version

Luckily I don’t think of YouTube as my storage server, so I have the original I made. I’m going to post it up on SoapsBox so hopefully they are smarter then YouTube. This recent one should have the audio.

If all else fails you can download the original from this 11mb zip file.

Tell me, is this not fair use? And if so, what can I do about it?

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