PubDef Wins Fight With KSDK, YouTube Account and All 500 Vids Back Online!
At 9:09 PM we received the following email:
Dear Antonio,
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we’ve completedprocessing your counter-notification regarding your videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIjnOfqga5shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr_r7XmPqQ8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cimgwvcd6U
This content has been restored and your account has been reinstated.
Sincerely,
HarryThe YouTube Team
Our YouTube account has been restored and I am happy to report that all 507 of our videos are back online.
It [...]
More on KSDK’s YouTube Attack
On Wednesday we filed a formal counter-notification with YouTube in response to our account being suspended and our more than 500 videos being taken off-line. The suspension came just hours after KSDK Channel 5 filed two complaints with YouTube alleging that we violated their copyrights by using clips of their broadcast in our piece criticizing [...]
National Coverage of KSDK Bullying
The webzine NewTeeVee.com has written about our spat with KSDK Channel 5, which has resulted in all 500 of our YouTube videos being taken off-line:
French argued that the use of the clips — less than sixty seconds from two different newscasts, edited to include titles commenting on the station’s reporting — was clearly fair use. [...]
KSDK SHUTS DOWN PUB DEF’S VIDEOS
Yesterday evening, Multimedia KSDK, Inc. filed a complaint with YouTube about our posting of a video contrasting a September 13 story by reporter Mike Owens which ended with a promise to air a tape of an allegedly crooked real estate seller “saying he makes regular payments of cash to the local alderman” with their [...]
PubDef is Still "Influential"
According to a new ranking by BlogNetNews.com, PubDef.net is the 7th most influential political blog in Missouri.
The site (more specifically BlogNetNews.com/Missouri) launched a new feature this week that ranks which Missouri state politics and news blogs are having the most influence on the direction of conversation in the state blogosphere.
Considering we haven’t even heard of, [...]
KSDK Chickens Out, Doesn’t Name Accused Alderman or Air Tape
After promising that on Friday we’d hear a tape of a allegedly crooked real estate seller “saying he makes regular payments of cash to the local alderman,” KSDK ran a short follow-up that did not include the tape, the name of the alderman, or any mention of the allegation.
An email to reporter Mike Owens, who [...]
Is an Alderman on the Take? (Gasp!)
Last night Channel 5 reporter Mike Owens did a story on a shady real estate man who sold a couple a home that he apparently no longer owned. The real owner is evicting the “buyers” and the shady salesman is ducking the law and TV cameras.
It was a pretty good story. But more interesting [...]
Troupe Spins, Hosts Forum Tonight
You can’t blame a guy for trying.
Alderman Charles Quincy Troupe appeared on Lizz Brown’s radio show this morning to counter any claims that he ever spoke in favor of House Bill 1, the economic development package which contained the Distressed Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit.
Brown even played for her listening audience the first few seconds [...]
Race and the Slay/George Dispute
Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan writes:
If the confrontation plays all the way out, George will lose his job. That will not be good, and I say that not just because I like George. Firing him would be racially divisive. A lot of people in the black community see the dispute as a matter of respect. George [...]
Mayor’s Office Targets Whistleblower
Following revelations last week that Streets Department employees have been working on private jobs on public time and with public equipment, another city worker, Sterling McKinney, told Channel 4 News of how three years ago he was ordered by his supervisor to pave the driveway of a city business.
He told Channel 4 that it is [...]
