The cat was a big Bruins fan in 2013-14 and played in every game - the last 2 seasons he has gone to sleep when hockey is on.
The National Hockey League just put a copyright claim on my cat
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The cat was a big Bruins fan in 2013-14 and played in every game - the last 2 seasons he has gone to sleep when hockey is on.
KrejciMVP
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with these bootleg sites, its wack a mole, one goes down, another pops up lol
Aeroforce
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moonshot summit
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Unsurprising. Look at what MLBAM (is that the acronym?) does to baseball videos on YouTube. They are nuts about it.
BEST retort yet!
Fenian24
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The NHL treating fans like pieces of meat since 100 years, I doubt it will be the 100th year slogan but it would fit.
I have never seen a league/business treat it's fans like the NHL does, they wonder why they can't break out of their almost niche spot in North America, take a look at fan relations.
I have never seen a league/business treat it's fans like the NHL does, they wonder why they can't break out of their almost niche spot in North America, take a look at fan relations.
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mikelvl
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Just be grateful that your cat isn't a football fan. The NFL would have suspended the cat for four games.....
DominicT
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I have no problem with that at all. My hope for starting this thread is that it gets the attention of somebody at the NHL that can stop this nonsense.
Thanks Dom
DominicT
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We'll see now what happens that Down Goes Brown saw the tweet
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Boston BROin
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I work with Youtube/Google a lot. I also used to work for the agency that represented FX Networks and they had a huge issue with this. FX Networks wanted to grow their page and saw that a lot of content from things like American Horror Story were being uploaded by fans. Our recommendation to them was to leave them a lone as you're getting free advertising.
Anyways, I think a lot of how these things work is that there are either automated crawlers which take things down and manual take downs. Looks like you got a manual take down which is where someone from NHL or their agency typed in some keywords and got a long list of videos tagged with NHL/Bruins/Hockey etc. They saw there were ads on the video and that person flagged it. They're doing this for hundreds of videos so they're more than likely on autopilot.
You can dispute the claim with Google/Youtube and you'll win in this case. Sucks that you'd have to do it, though.
Also, good points on Dafoomie. I think, though, that Dafoomie isn't making money off of his video. Google/Youtube has the ability to tag videos uploaded by users and directly take any advertising dollars made on that video based on meta data, etc. That is the only way I can think of Dafoomie being allowed to keep his videos up. The money is going to the NHL.
Anyways, I think a lot of how these things work is that there are either automated crawlers which take things down and manual take downs. Looks like you got a manual take down which is where someone from NHL or their agency typed in some keywords and got a long list of videos tagged with NHL/Bruins/Hockey etc. They saw there were ads on the video and that person flagged it. They're doing this for hundreds of videos so they're more than likely on autopilot.
You can dispute the claim with Google/Youtube and you'll win in this case. Sucks that you'd have to do it, though.
Also, good points on Dafoomie. I think, though, that Dafoomie isn't making money off of his video. Google/Youtube has the ability to tag videos uploaded by users and directly take any advertising dollars made on that video based on meta data, etc. That is the only way I can think of Dafoomie being allowed to keep his videos up. The money is going to the NHL.
Fossy21
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I can see them going through every video that has the word "hockey" in it. Imagine how sad they get when a video with shaky phone camera footage that has loads of views turns out to be from a KHL game or something.
My cat prefers watching NHL 94 on SNES, it's probably the blueish hue that does it.
skullguise
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Glad Dom posted the tweet....I was thinking the NHL needs to be embarrassed in public about this. Copyright is one thing, this was ridiculous.
Aeroforce
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This demonstrates the NHL's tacit belief that more people watch cat videos than their product.
Kidding aside, cat videos are popular, and I imagine should this video go viral, the NHL wants whatever revenue it may generate.
Technology moves much faster than the wheels of justice, so it's been a nightmare for rights holders.
David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven) writes a blog called the Trichordist, in which he vociferously attacks Google/YouTube for how they disrespect copyrighted material.
Irving Azoff/Don Henley have also gone on the offensive.
Henley hates the fact people can film his shows and post them without his consent. He also hates the fact he often isn't paid, or is paid a paltry sum when his copyrighted material generates clicks.
So on the one hand, it seems ridiculous that the NHL did this, but in the big picture, it makes sense.
"Any use without the NHL's written consent..."
This was posted a couple of years ago, so the numbers may be different today. This is from David Lowery's blog:
Kidding aside, cat videos are popular, and I imagine should this video go viral, the NHL wants whatever revenue it may generate.
Technology moves much faster than the wheels of justice, so it's been a nightmare for rights holders.
David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven) writes a blog called the Trichordist, in which he vociferously attacks Google/YouTube for how they disrespect copyrighted material.
Irving Azoff/Don Henley have also gone on the offensive.
Henley hates the fact people can film his shows and post them without his consent. He also hates the fact he often isn't paid, or is paid a paltry sum when his copyrighted material generates clicks.
So on the one hand, it seems ridiculous that the NHL did this, but in the big picture, it makes sense.
"Any use without the NHL's written consent..."
This was posted a couple of years ago, so the numbers may be different today. This is from David Lowery's blog:
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Fossy21
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Sure, but there's a thing called fair use, which this surely falls under. No one is tuning in to this video (which is 90% cat, 8% Jack Edwards and 2% NHL) to watch a game. There's way too much added content for them to put in a fair claim here, in my opinion. I.e. they don't really have a claim to whatever money it might make.
They should be content with the small possibility that similar videos might bring more interest into the sport and thereby the league. It's small in this case, with other more involved videos increasing the possibility - whilst also increasing their claim to the revenue - but even in this video that possibility is bigger than if they force people not to spread the sport in new, inventive ways involving social media. Sure, highlight videos and similar stuff... put claims on those, preferably offering fair deals to the "content assemblers" or whatever you want to call it, that still encourage people to keep spreading the availability of the league whilst raking in the brunt of the revenue. In OP's case it's just ridiculous.
But like Boston BROin stated above, it's most likely just someone using a shotgun approach to putting up claims to anything containing even a minuscule amount of NHL content, just to be sure.
