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thehousenextdooronline.com - 1/13/2009

Copy Rites: YouTube vs. Kevin B. Lee

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By Matt Zoller Seitz When the history of intellectual property law is written, January 12, 2009 should be marked as a decisive moment. It was the day that my friend, fellow House Next Door contributor and sometime filmmaking partner, Kevin B. Lee saw his entire archive of critical video essays ...

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blog.spout.com - 1/13/2009

YouTube Cracking Down on Critical Video Essays

— blog.spout.com — Kevin B. Lee, who wrote for us about the best music videos of 2008 and whose video... essays I’ve linked to of several times in the past, just informed me that his YouTube account has been “ permanently disabled .” Kevin’s video ... (more) YouTube Cracking Down on Critical Video Essays

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If you care about fair use and online videos ...
FilmChat — ... then read this thoughtful essay by Matt Zoller Seitz, inspired by the recent erasure of Kevin B. Lee's complete archive of critical video essays at YouTube (for "copyright" violations, natch).

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE KEVIN LEE/YOUTUBE SITUATION
Filmmaker Magazine — Let me weigh in quickly on the imbroglio surrounding the deletion of Kevin Lee's YouTube account. On the account Lee had posted his series of critical video essays on a number of recent and classic films, and in the course of arguing the aesthetic merits of each picture the videos included clips from the movies themselves. Apparently, YouTube received a complaint from the copyright holder of one of the clips and deleted his entire account. Matt Zoller Seitz has the complete story along with a comments thread that is also a must read, and Karina Longworth originally ...

Foolish Consistency
Cinema Styles — ... is an unplanned post, feverishly typed out at work after reading this post on Jim Emerson's Scanners. It was in reading this post that I discovered all of Kevin Lee's video essays on YouTube had been removed due to copyright infringement. Jim Emerson says, "This is a travesty of the principles of intellectual freedom that the Fair Use doctrine is designed to protect and encourage under US Copyright Law." I agree. Matt Zoller Seitz also writes about it here and says: Clips often determine the difference between learning something and ...

Sneezing Down Pictures
DIRECTORAMA | A filmstrip directed by Peet Gelderblom — ... were permanently deleted from YouTube for charges of copyright infringement. Matt Zoller Seitz wrote this wonderful angry article about the whole issue. Let’s hope the nightmare scenario above can be avoided… ...

Out and about
Quiet Bubble — ... Also for deep-dish discussion, Matt Zoller Seitz defends some new trends in film criticism from the onslaught of misguided intellectual property laws: ...

Tough questions: The summer '09 film quiz
Quiet Bubble — ... The prevailing trend is to think that YouTube, DailyMotion, Hulu, Vimeo, and other sites have democratized movie distribution, and allowed for any number of indie kids to become overnight superstars—at least for their allotted 15 minutes.  At the same time, these “democratic,” “for the people” mediums are wholly corporate-controlled, and can eliminate any user-created content at any time, for any reason.  (Just ask Kevin B. Lee.)  The YouTube trend is interesting to me, but not as interesting as the trend in automatically thinking that YouTube represents freedom—when, in fact, ...