It recently came to my attention that the Franklin Mint Blog YouTube page has been removed due to copyright infringement – which affects most of the videos I've shared on this blog. I don't deny uploading copyrighted material so I am indeed guilty. But so is 95% of YouTube. Why pick on me? I never uploaded entire movies...just clips. Clips, I might add, from mostly obscure movies that might benefit from someone seeing and learning from my clip. But that's the way it goes.- Franklin Mint
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My condolences. I was one of the many that enjoyed the Youtube clips of ultra-rare movies that nobody ever heard of. I was in fact not aware that one could be fired or banned from Youtube. I thought they just deleted the "offending" videos.
Apparently all youtube videos have been removed from Blogger? That's not a verified piece of info, just something someone told me today.
Yeah, you're not the only one whose content is being removed. I say if you're using copyrighted material in an "educational" way (meaning you're not using it to make a personal profit but to give information to others), they should allow it.
Plus, if the media companies really want to use their movies/tv shows/music for the purposes of making money, they need to RELEASE said content.
I think in a relatively short space of historical time we are going to look back on Google's recent culling of numerous blogs on the most flimsy of pretexts coupled with a similar wiping by Youtube of thousands of accounts as a violation of basic human rights....what gets me is the arbitary way they function and given the fact that one way or another, most accounts have at least some "copyrighted" material, it should either be NO copyrighted material allowed or a system that allows this material to be used in a non-profit/educational/cultural context.
Otherwise it becomes a chance roll of the dice whether your blog/Youtube account gets killed
Many people including yourself have put so much time and effort into their Blogger and Youtube accounts, the very things that have made these two net entities so popular and yet they treat those people with zero respect, almost like "criminals" and very soon they are going to encounter blowback with alternative online media systems that do not shut accounts down becoming more popular.
Veoh is actually pretty good for letting "copyrighted" material through and as long as you have got the latest Flash installed their player works pretty well...I know I was initially put off by the idea of having to install their webplayer to view material but to be honest i do not even notice its running...and there are thousands of cool films and tv series on there from the 50s/60s/70s that are copyright "grey areas"...plus you do not have to watch things in ten minute segments!
Anyway, very sorry to hear about you being shut down..hopefully Phoenix like, Franklin Mint Visual Division will rise again!
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