Why Is MLB Claiming Revenue From Obviously Fair Use Videos On YouTube?
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Nearly a decade ago, we wrote a bunch about an excellent book called Copyfraud, by law professor Jason Mazzone, which went into great detail about how the legacy entertainment industry companies have used copyright in ways that are clearly against copyright's intent -- to the point that they border on fraud. The concept of copyfraud should be referred to more frequently, and here's a perfect example. Just a couple months ago, we wrote about the amazing social media account of Jimmy O'Brien, who goes by @Jomboy_ on Twitter. He's combined his love of baseball, his video editing skills, his ability to read lips incredibly well, and with a sarcastic, dry sense of humor to make a ton of amazing videos about various things happening in baseball. We highlighted a bunch last time around and his profile has only grown a lot since then, including among Major League Baseball players.About a month after that post, Jomboy may have had his biggest moment so far, in putting together a truly amazing video of NY Yankees manager Aaron Boone getting ejected -- following a bunch of players and Boone arguing with a young umpire over some bad calls. What took the video from normal great to amazing was that it revealed exactly what Boone was saying to the ump during their argument thanks to a bunch of "hot mics" from the broadcast. That allowed us to learn a lot more about this argument than anyone normally does in watching a manager scream at an ump:
Here is the full sequence of the Boone ejection. Hot mics galore. pic.twitter.com/R6Vw0qw0qn— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) July 18, 2019
The preponderance of that information has become more common lately, as microphones have picked up what's said on the field, leaving little to the imagination. Torre will take the information, but he'd rather it wasn't available to anyone with a Twitter account.That's not the way I want to hear it, for everybody else to hear it,'' Torre said Tuesday at Yankee Stadium. I wish I could hear it, only. It makes it easy to make my decision.Apparently, Torre met with Boone to "discuss" the hot mic "issue" (there is no issue), leading one of the Yankees' beat reporters, Bryan Hoch, to point out that this meeting was really happening because someone like Jomboy made a video:
Joe Torre and Aaron Boone had a meeting yesterday during which they discussed the viral "hot mic" videos. It's a @Jomboy_ world and we're all living in it.— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) August 14, 2019
They claim near every video on YouTube, trust me, they are making WAY more money off me than I'm making off me— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) August 14, 2019
That's what I've heard over and over. I tried to dispute one before but lost.— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) August 14, 2019
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