Will Hanna Barbera or Winston Cease and Desist youtube?
"Banned" ads and forgotten things have a way of getting unearthed again on the internet, and now with google video and youtube everything old is new again.
Take this Fred Flinstone promotion for Winston cigarettes for example. In the late nineties, any web page that carried the footage would be asked to remove it, since both Winston and Flinstones are trademarks with a posse of lawyers ready to protect them, and so the film went into hiding on the un-googlable gnutella networks, and in the deep storages of avid commercial collectors hard drives.
Now that the film has popped on youtube.com I wonder how long it will take before youtube are asked to remove the ad. And if so, will they comply? What do you reckon?
And if the submissions don't follow Youtube's terms - how will youtube a) know and b) deal with this?
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- What, no pitchforks and
6 min 7 sec ago - Worth it for your dream
7 min 4 sec ago - I could care less about the
1 hour 9 min ago - Okay, it may be hokey in some
14 hours 3 min ago - What is the name of the song
3 days 11 hours ago - With this card, they're
3 days 16 hours ago - Haha as well as "Why is it?"
3 days 23 hours ago - This was all so much better
4 days 3 hours ago - This wasn't an Abercrombie
4 days 20 hours ago - This just makes me like
4 days 21 hours ago


You just want someone to ask you to take this down like the (BRAND THAT SHALL NOT BE MENTIONED) ads, admit it!
Besides, winston or flinstones wouldn't bother going after youtube or google video and the likes. They only like to scare amatuers and hobbyists with small websites.
Never say never. We'll see how long this lasts.
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