Thursday, October 23, 2008
Hannan Mercy Ministries Update: The PR Battle Moves to YouTube
Posted by Caleb Hannan on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:15 PM
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Caleb,
My videos have not been pulled, but then I was perhaps a bit stricter in their formating and most of them are copyrighted to me. On an interesting side note, Mercy removes any openly critical comments on their videos ( I have been polite) anything that is not sychophantic in nature.
Mercy's response to dissent seems to be to quash it rather than present evidence to back up their assertions.
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The videos they are talking about were fair use - plain and simple.
By claiming copyright to the fair use videos, Mercy Ministries has put themselves in an extremely undesirable legal position.
Unfortunately the legal issues may fall upon whichever lowly staff member they had submit the false copyright claims, rather than Mercy Ministries management themselves.
The videos they are talking about were fair use - plain and simple.
By claiming copyright to the fair use videos, Mercy Ministries has put themselves in an extremely undesirable legal position.
Unfortunately the legal issues may fall upon whichever lowly staff member they had submit the false copyright claims, rather than Mercy Ministries management themselves.
Not only that Barry but I know for a fact Mercy does not own the copyright to the footage taken from Australian Television.
Mercy Ministries' actions are passive aggressive.
You should have written about what they did to Wikipedia too.
"Not only that Barry but I know for a fact Mercy does not own the copyright to the footage taken from Australian Television."
How about the interview done by the Sydney Morning Herald? I noticed that video was taken down by Youtube because of Mercy Ministries so-called copyright claims too.
That's crazy.
"How about the interview done by the Sydney Morning Herald? I noticed that video was taken down by Youtube because of Mercy Ministries so-called copyright claims too."
That video was actually the first one that was taken down off my (currently suspended) account. The Email I received from youtube said it was taken down October 14, 2008 at 7:16:54 PM.
And they are claiming their lawyer advised them to do this? Where do they find their lawyers, on the back of a Cornflakes pack?
Hey Caleb, you might want to check this out. Now Mercy is encouraging people to upload their promotional material to their own youtube channel.
And here I was thinking they get upset at that sort of thing.
