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These are just so weird (and you posted right as I was about to!) - I mean, Ko-bingo is one of the oldest jokes there is - the creatives who wrote this are either Swedish, or unfortunate enough to spend every rainy summer they have up there, in Dalarna somewhere. Dontchathink?
Because no matter how strange they seem, it's kinda true. Ish.
Here's on of the Youtube postings of Eepybirds film.
Here's are some google video postings of Eepybirds mentos experiments.
You and I both know that Eepybird doesn't want their films posted on Google and Youtube, as we can read - but how do we let Youtube and Google know that the copyright holder doesn't want their work posted there? We can't.
And that sucks. There should be some 'check this if this infringes copyright' button, or something like that. The proving that work belongs to someone shouldn't be placed on the actual copyright holder but on the poster who uploads it. To make matters even more confusing, some websites use youtube and/or google video as some sort of video host for their films, so you might stumble onto films with URL's embedded in them often. So, a URL in the film doesn't automatically mean it was uploaded by someone else, but often it is. Kinda funny, user adformatie (yeah, like the Dutch tradepress) uploaded the Cannes Creative Directors head film to youtube.
This'll be tricky - just look at places like Flickr for example. While the majority of Flickr users upload their own digital photography and have fun, quite a few upload images they themselves did not take - and it is clear that they didn't. News images from the AP wire for example. And how do you report this? Well, you can't unless you are the photographer at AP (or an AP rep I s'pose) who can prove that you are the copyright holder of the image. Which I guess makes sense - but aren't the photographers busy taking pictures rather than running around flickr finding theis pictures...? (oh wait, I sense a whole army of recruits having searching for infringements on sharing sites like these as their future job...eep!)
It's the same over at youtube there are a few hoops to jump through if you found something that violates someones copyright - and you pretty much have to be the copyright holder or " a rep" for them to file a complaint. This means only the dudes with lawyers in their employ have time to do this, like NBC who had youtube take down a bunch of SNL skits. Youtube have now capped the length of films that you may upload to try and prevent more copyright infringement, and you might not find entire feature Bollywood films on Gooogle video anymore (but you did before), but that's really like fixing a leaking ship with some cotton if you ask me.
(ps - a good post on that over here at Giga om "Google and Youtube, the dark side of copyright infringement)
Now, in the case of the crazy Eepybird.com boys with their Coke and Mentos experiment, they state on their site:
Please do not post our videos on sites like YouTube and Google. If you'd like to link to or embed our video on your site, click here.
- presumably so that they could make a little dosh and spend it on creating more funny films (Diet Coke and Mentos cost cash yaknow). Well, both youtube and Google video are full of that film, and as a visitor there is no way that I can report those films.
Cannes Lions Titanium Winner 2006. Click-a-de-link-a
I was thinking that most people do ignore the top part, so what they are really hoping for is Xanga memberspotting it and then blogging about it. A quick search at Xang showed that very few blogged the word "Sublymonal", and of those who did two talked about this thing and neither one was very happy about it. I guess their ad plan backfired.
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