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Legit clips fall victim to Viacom YouTube purge

Posted by Cory Bergman on February 6, 2007

Among the 100,000 clips that YouTube purged for Viacom are a few legitimate user-generated clips that happened to share some of the same keywords. This guy had his clip of a “Sunday dinner at Redbones” deleted, and he received a YouTube email that read, “Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account.” (Some suspect that YouTube had searched for “Leon Redbone” and ended up with his clip.) Regardless, he’s not so happy about it.

Echy

Sounds like someone needs to patent a system for cataloging video and start making royalty money.
thedetroitchannel

sounds like someone should simply re-load the thing.

maybe when youtube goes from “100,000″ violations to a handful someone can individually review the few that are in question.

pretty simple.

but good for a little pr.