Will.i.am Sends Takedown Notice Over Megaupload 'Endorsement' Video
 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr...p-diddy-272414

Artists didn’t consent to Megaupload video

http://gigaom.com/2011/12/12/universal-vs-megaupload/

Will.I.Am, Diddy Shut Down Megaupload Video on YouTube
Hosting service may have used footage of artists endorsing their product without permission

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...utube-20111212

What the hell is the "Megaupload Mega Song" ?

why were they even talking about mega upload in the first place? $$$

"when i got to send files across the globe i use mega upload"

looks very much like a scripted endorsement, may not have explicitly authorized it for a music performance

but if i paid for that commercial speech, got the right to distributable in whole or in part

clipping parts into the song would in fact be perfectly legal.

How is someone complaining after the fact that they didn't know their likeness would be used in this way a *copyright* issue?

pretty obvious that these people did not even know wtf megaupload is and it was a paid endorsement.

that you thought they were doing it because they supported megaupload is fucking hilarious.

what a shock that a file sharing site started by a convicted criminal might have been less than honest with these celebs.

I feel discriminated against, the video only has black people in it! LOL.

it not that the point DMCA takedown is ONLY copyright issues using it because you don't like the implied endorsement is something that should have been settled with a lawsuit not censorship.

do you know what endorsement means

it paid support but it still support.

you really can't see anything out of your little time shifting worldview.

you might want to look in the mirror

when you have to ignore the defined meaning of a word to make your argument ...

lol , imagine that gideons paid shills turn out to be paid shills

So a bunch of thieving pirate douchebags did something without consent?

That is shocking.

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That's my point. It is nothing to do with copyright and should not have been handled with a DMCA.

Read the article moron.

celebs are so dumb. :1orglaugh

i call bullshit.

EVERYONE, and i mean EVERYONE in the music industry knows exactly what and where megaupload is.

typical rapper move he is trying to rip you off like he id in the streets, take your money then flip.

they were paid, then their agent prolly said "ummm hello, are you as dumb as you look?"

now they try and fuck over the people who paid them, typical hood rat

Which I would tend to believe over thieving pirate douchebags you complete dimwit cunt.

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i cant afford ANY upload... :(

I love how it's a well produced video of them behind the scenes but now they "didn't know it would be used like this".

What the fuck? :1orglaugh

All I know is that is the most awesomely horrible song in the world and my jaw dropped when I heard it from sheer shock that anything could suck that much.

I'm no judge but I guess I'll take a 'broad written agreement' over their word.

So let me guess, Kim Kardashian, Will I Am and P Diddy don't really use Mega Upload when they have to send files across the globe? Mega Upload prolly gave them money to say they used the service, not knowing what it was. Artists gave their endorsements, and then found out after the fact what the service is actually used for, and are now trying to retract their endorsements. But I though that these Actors and Recording Artists were smart enough to speak out about world issues and such???

they took money for the parts of the video, now they want to recant?

maybe if they give the money back they were paid.

Please don't this correct and intelligent statement again.

We're too busy hating Megaupload.

Kim Kardashian is black? Oh OK.

Who is that big fat fuck at 1:50 in the vid?

How could you miss him?

:1orglaugh

Isn't there a pretty hefty penalty for sending out false DMCA notices?

That shit is so corny its gonna be a huge fucking hit

There is no statutory damage provision in the DMCA for sending false takedown notices, but the sender of the false notice is liable for damages/harm that can be proven by the parties damaged by such a false notification under § 512(f).

Here's the statutory language:

In this instance, Megaupload has already responded with a lawsuit, asking the court for (among other things) injunctions against the defendants that would prevent them from suing Megaupload over the song, filing further take-down notices in connection with the song/video, damages (subject to proving such), attorney's fees and other costs associated with the lawsuit.

Seems to me that a more appropriate way for these artists (and/or their representatives) to pursue satisfaction here, if they really believe their likenesses were misappropriated, would have been a "right of publicity" claim.

I don't know what all the facts are here, of course, but on its face, this doesn't sound like a copyright issue, at all.

That video is hilarious lol

5 years for pejury for each takedown

that's weird...the song was produced by Printz ..who is in the video...and plays on the Black eyed peas band....

Publicity stunt by both sides.

They probably have file ID technology in place to monitor song downloads and pay royalties to the labels. But to keep the site cool, they have to retain their image of being a rogue service.

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and who has ever been sentenced that?

no one it a phantom penalty

the problem is if someone doesn't serve jail time for this

the bullshit penalties for bogus take downs are strong enough arguement is total dead

here is the contract will.i.am signed

http://htmlimg3.scribdassets.com/8aa...2b106d6bca.jpg

sure but they obviously had no idea what is it. people around here are completely oblivious to file lockers, what do you think about some pampered celeb who lives in a bubble and has assistants to text message for him?