Comments on: Vivendi Universal & Prince vs Baby Holden

By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:50:45 +0000

How low will they go? Any judge in his/her right mind should laugh them out of the courtroom. I hope this mother wins a settlement and somehow they learn their lesson. They have made the bed they now lie in by shunning the internet and all the possible ways to profit from it. They lost the chance to be the leader of online distribution when they failed to act. I just wonder how long us taxpayers are going to sit around allowing them to manipulate laws and try and control everything. Greed, plain and simple. I will never buy anything that gives anyone but the artist a penny. How sad that a proud parent no has to police anything that might be owned by them. It just makes me sick!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:32:59 +0000

A lot of homemade videos on Youtube and other user-upload video sites contain background music of complete songs in near-CD-quality digital sound mastered into the video. Since this music could be ripped from the video and played elsewhere, that might be classified as a copyright violation.

But here the music is only faintly audible in the background, it plays at very poor audio quality, and is only a portion of the song. That hardly qualifies as infringement, it seems to me.

Summy-Birchard Music could certainly sue over unpaid performance royalties for the thousands of birthday parties filmed with people singing “Happy Birthday to You”, which they own the copyright of this 1893-origin song.

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:39:58 +0000

“Is the link invisible to anyone else?”

I’m using Firefox 1.06 and it shows up in blue for me, both in the article and in your comment. I’m not sure if I changed something to do this or not. There’s probably a setting in about:config to do it. I tried to look for it on the Mozilla site, but they seem determined to make any information there as hard to find as possible. It used to be a simple link from the FAQ, not I can’t find any link to the page that explains the config settings.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:32:15 +0000

And Indiana Gregg rejoices.

Tare them apart Holden!!!!!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:43:27 +0000

BTW: It is “used to.” He’s all about Chuck Berry these days.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:40:02 +0000

"thanks but direct link is already in story" So it seems. Although there is actually a clickable link present under the word "YouTube", it appears in regular text (not bold, underlined, or colored text) and I could only find it by moving the cursor over every single word on the page and watching URL appear in the statusbar. Here's the page code: So she captured 29 seconds of Holden in full bounce and posted it on YouTube. Is the link invisible to anyone else? Is there a way on Firefox to set the browser to automatically highlight in some way all hidden URL links?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:05:23 +0000

thanks but direct link is already in story

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:01:58 +0000

For the benefit of everyone whose browser does not properly display offsite imbedded frames, the direct link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ

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