Wednesday, May 19, 2010

On the subject of parodies and copyright...

Alright, obviously, this is a parodie that the Simpsons have done of Ke$ha's song Tik Tok. Not so obvious is that the entire video is flipped horizontally 180 degrees. As soon as the into aired on TV, many people put it on youtube for others to view. However, these videos were removed due to copyrights. However, clever little youtube users flipped the video so that it cannot be removed. Even if the video description, the user who posted this video writes "JFYI its the other way'round so it will be not deleted because of copyright infringements".

1 comment:

  1. Very clever. So, if someone uploaded the latest Lady Gaga video but flipped it 180 degrees, would it be immune to takedown demands? Hmmmm.

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