Every so often, I’ll get a comment on one of my old legacy posts. Often it’s a disgruntled customer who got shafted by Rocky Mountain Film Lab, or someone who still remembered wrestling announcer Joe McHugh. I’ll get someone who wished they could go back to the Great Escape when it was Storytown U.S.A., or someone will recall their time on the old Channel 6 game show Pick-A-Show. It’s great that these legacy posts are still receiving visits.
This morning, I approved a blog comment on a post I wrote last August, chronicling ten classic horseracing calls by track announcer Tom Durkin. The comment surprised me.
I am very angry that many of the race calls were taken down on You Tube!!!! If anyone finds where these treasures can now be seen post it here because now I can’t find them anywhere and I never get tired of hearing them especially the one for My Mother-in-law!!
So I went to the blog post and – sure enough – of the ten YouTube clips I originally embedded in the blog post, six of them were no longer accessible. Many of those clips were removed due to the YouTube accountholder posting the video clip without permission of the copyright owner – in this case, an organization called ThoroughVisioN Pty. Ltd., an Australian horseracing company.
Now you start wondering, “Why would an Australian horseracing broadcaster care about YouTube clips involving horseracing at Saratoga and Aqueduct?”
My suspicion is that the person who originally posted the Saratoga and Aqueduct may have also posted horseracing footage from several Australian thoroughbred events on YouTube as well; once ThoroughVisioN Pty. Ltd. saw that their copyright was infringed, they most likely shut down the YouTube infringer – and all that guy’s videos, whether ThoroughVisioN property or not – got yanked when the infringer’s account was closed.
This is not uncommon. People post YouTube clips of television shows and movies all the time. That doesn’t make what they’re doing right or acceptable; however, if the video is available on YouTube and I have some time to add it to a blog post, heck yeah I’m doing it. I’ll link to it – I just won’t copy and paste it.
So that way, if the infringing video does get yanked off of YouTube, it’s not because of me.
That is, unless ThoroughVisioN Pty. Ltd. happens to be one of my blog readers. It’s possible, I do put a lot of Australian YouTube music clips on this blog. Hmm…
Chuck The Writer 