Vital fair use copyright defense lands – thanks to warring YouTubers The fair use of copyrighted video content has been upheld in an important legal battle in America between two YouTubers. Ethan and Hila Klein were sued last year by Matt Hosseinzadeh over a video in which they mocked his "Bold Guy" persona and his "Cringe-tube" videos where he wins over attractive one-dimensional women by …
After reading this article my first reaction was simple: "Meh, one youtuber mocking and making fun of another. Of course that's going to piss some people off...". Then I actually watched the re-uploaded video and... As said: some people really should put some work into keeping their ego in check I think.
I mean.. they weren't negative, they weren't mocking the guy or his video or anything, but merely commented. It's the golden rule of the Internet: if you don't like people commenting on the stuff you do or share then maybe not comment and share in the first place.
Clippy says: "Did you mean 'deflate' and 'do' instead of 'inflate' and 'comment'?
FIY
Apart from that: Ethan & Hila should be entitled to a share of his revenue, they not only got him extra publicity, at the end they even encourage people to check out his other stuff.
This is somehow like the producer of 'Manos' complaining about turning up in MST3k.
OTOH
Business idea:
1. Make crap video
2. Have someone else (secretly part of this) diss it badly
3. Sue, countersue and get lots of publicity and more click revenue
4. Split profit 3-way between the two parties and the lawyers.
Well?
I tried to look at the video linked in the article, I tried hard but could not go past the 50 s mark. all the other vids I tried from the guy, I stopped after max 10 s. This is horrendously tedious. It looks like it has been refused by prawn channels because of poor dialog and story.
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