Tuesday, January 15, 2008
YouTube has taken the clip I posted of Quagmire (Seth MacFarlane) speaking Thai (from here) offline:
This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation claiming that this material is infringing:
(Foul) Thai language on The Family Guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8liBWSKu6XQ
I feel that my usage of the clip constitutes fair use; however, I will not be submitting a counter notice (thereby inviting a lawsuit from Twentieth Century Fox) under the DMCA safe harbor provision.
What I can’t figure out is how so many other videos from “The Family Guy” remain online.
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rikker | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 10:23 pm
That’s a shame. I hate the DMCA. The whole point of it is to erode and prevent fair use. Long live fair use!
Here’s an idea for a future post: upload the clip of Robert De Niro speaking Thai from Meet the Parents. I first saw the movie before I started learning Thai, and have only watched it once since (and even that was a good 3 years ago).
As I recall, his pronunciation is bad but intelligible. It’s on the phone, so you only hear the one side. It’d be great to see a similar discussion of that.