[Lidia Portillo]

I gave one news organization a link to the private content on my youtube page, along with permission to use it (implied in our email contact). Their editors then ripped it and embedded it in an article, and the embed of the rip is hosted on their youtube page. That video initially got a lot of views and sparked other news/media organizations to either link to THAT embed or include portions of it on their pages (they must have ripped it too.) Another person who had worked on the video with me also followed a similar process to grant a couple of other places permission to use the content.

So yeah, it does seem odd to me that from these three original sources, there have been DOZENS of articles from different news/media/magazine sites —small along with major ones — that embedded clips of the content within their own articles. There were also other news organizations who compiled entire researched stories, along with expert guest speakers, based around the inclusion of this footage (which once again I think they must have ripped from the original news sources we were in contact with.) Does copyright law allow news and media organizations to do what these scavenger news organizations did? While a few of them use significant portions of the content, some of them use shorter clips. Does length of the clip used matter at all? The point is that they used the content without permission from the original creators……they simply ripped it off (and in subtler cases, simply video referenced) the news organizations that the creators had worked with but not signed licensing contracts with.

DMCAing is probably in order.

[Lidia Portillo]

I guess it makes a difference that two major news organizations have already put the video up on their youtube pages.
That happened last year. Unfortunately, because I was new to this and ignorant, I did not ask the news organizations to pay!!!!!!!! (I know: punch me in the face, ect).

Anyhoo, I was contacted again this year about the video, and I was just wondering how much I could possibly charge since its “used” (or maybe its just that I was used….)

Could I still get thousands for it? I think it also depends upon the context, though, that it would be “used” in. So far I don’t think that the companies that exhibited it last year got all the angles from it, but heck I’m partial because I made the thing before he was famous.

–Lost and Confused.