http://www.omonomono.com/2009/03/27/guhroogamesh/

Seriously...they're claiming Copyright Infringement on Little Kuriboh's Parody video. (LittleKuriboh known for the Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged series.)




Maybe they need a lesson of 'Fair Use'

Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered “fair,” such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations;use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.”

It's a bit Hypocritical to host a AMV contest with copyrighted material and then turn around and scream 'Infringement' when somebody parody's their video because they're butthurt that their commercial sucks, is HIGHLY offensive to their target audience, and the internet knows it.

Then again, me speaking out against this bullshit is probably why they kicked me off of staff, opinions be damned. But I'm a bit too damn tired to give a good fight so I'm going to bed and be PISSED in the morning.