It took quite awhile longer than I’d expected. This thing got around in a big way, what with The Wall Street Journal and Yahoo! and Slashdot and Ars Technica and seemingly a jillion more outlets that covered it. Lots of people wanted to weigh in on this and for sake of objectivity I’ve tried my best to include everyone that I could find that raised valid arguments about this issue, regardless of which side they took.
So here ya go: a (more or less) definitive reference to the published articles about the Christopher Knight/YouTube/Viacom incident.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
Kevin Nalty AKA “Nalts” himself provided commentary on the controversy early on with this nice video that I totally dug…
“Viacom’s copyright cops get carried away” – by Nick Ferrell for THE INQUIRER also deserves special recognition because this is the first time ever that I’ve been referred to as a “bloke”. Farrell also writes that I “stood for” school board (yes this is a British publication 🙂
And The 12 Angry Men Blog bestowed me with the honor of “Hero of the Week” this past Friday 🙂
PERSONAL INTERVIEWS“‘Saber man’, YouTube run afoul of copyright” – by Gerald Witt for the News & Record
“Viacom slaps YouTuber for behaving like Viacom” – by Cade Metz for The Register
“Small Town Man: Victim or Copyright Infringer?” – by Abby Prince for WebProNews
Plus Ultra Podcast Episode 5 with Tracy R. Twyman (audio interview in MP3 format)
“YouTube video involving local candidate resurfaces” – by Gerald Witt for the News & Record
“Chris Knight’s Copyright Infringement Case Resolved” – by Abby Prince for WebProNews
PUBLISHED ARTICLES BEFORE REINSTATEMENT“Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright” – by Slashdot
“Punishing Corporate Copyright Abusers” – by Dan Gillmor for Center for Citzen Media
“YouTube yanks goofy ‘Death Star’ clip at Viacom’s insistence” – by Russell Shaw for ZDNet.com
“Viacom steals video, issues take down notice to the artist” – by Fair Use Day
“Here’s Your 15 Minutes And Your DMCA Notice” – by Jason Lee Miller for WebProNews
Viacom: It’s Not Copyright Infringement When We Do It” – by Kristen Nicole for Mashable
“Viacom is a Big, Mean Bully” – by Kevin Nalty for Will Video For Food
“Viacom Can Take Your Stuff and Copyright It” – by Evan for Uneasy Silence
“Viacom runs Web video, claims copyright” – by Owen Thomas for Valleywag
“Viacom says that local blogger infringed on his own copyright” – by Darkmoon for LUX.ET.UMBRA
“YouTube Complies with Viacom” – by Jordan McCollum for Marketing Pilgrim
“Christopher Knight’s Crapolicious Copyright Case” – by roasty for Crapolicio.us
“This time Viacom is accused of violating copyright” – by Greg Sandoval for CNET News.com
“Chutzpah!” – by Mike Weiksner for Connected Conversations
“Viacom – pokaz hipokryzji” by Antyweb (IN POLISH!)
“Viacom breaks copyright time continuum” – by DiscoZome for Unknown Worlds Forum
“Is plagiarism protected by copyright law?” – by Silicon Valley Sleuth
“Full-Circle Copyright Infringement” – by The J-Walk Blog
“Copyfight: Viacom runs Web video, claims copyright” – by Technology News Blog
“Viacom in a copyright doomloop” – by Adriana Lukas for Media Influencer
“Viacom’s Chutzpah” – by Jeff for spin the cat
“Viacom Dings Man For Copying His Own Video” – by Yahoo! Tech
“Viacom Pulls Clip It Doesn’t Necessarily Own” – by Jackson West for NewTeeVee
“Viacom Accuses Copyright Owner of Copyright Infringement!” – by Mike Abundo for Inside Online Video
“Misusing and Abusing Social Media and Trust” – by Laurel Papworth
“Viacom’s Got Big Balls” – by Bubba for Fazed
“Urheberrechtsposse: Viacom vs. Knight vs. Viacom” – by Felix Knoke for Spiegel Online (IN GERMAN!)
“Say What?” – by Bob Schwartz for A South Dakota Moderate
“Hypocrisy in the Copyright Infringement Debate” – by Of Zen and Computing
“Viacom slammed for pulling VH-1 YouTube clip” – by Matt Chapman for vnunet.com
“YouTube-Related Legal Disputes, Part I” – by Peter Lattman for The Wall Street Journal
“Viacom s ‘bass ackwards’ screw-up issues takedown for video it ‘pirated'” – by Chad Smith
“Viacom: Fair Use Is What We Say It Is” – by Scott Gilbertson for Wired
“For Me and Not for Thee” – by Sleepcatz
“Viacom Once Again Abusing DMCA?” – by Andy Beal for Marketing Pilgrim
“The One with the double standard” – by in the key of :: T
“Viacom: Direitos de autor? O que Ă© isso?” – by OrangeEye (IN PORTUGUESE! I think…)
“Viacom demonstrates the meaning of the word ‘hypocrisy'” – by Less for Stupid Evil Bastard
“Can you copyright something you’ve nicked?” – by Dizzy for Dizzy Thinks
“How to Infringe Your Own Coyright – It Happened on YouTube” – by Bogdan Popa for Softpedia
“Christopher vs. Goliath” – by Tilly Gokbudak
“Full-Circle Copyright” – by Bernard Goldbach
“YouTube coypright conundrum” – by Software Online Guide
“Copyright Infringement Goes Meta” – by Erin Simon for Maximum PC
“Hvem eier en YouTube-video?” – by Electroworld (IN NORWEGIAN!)
“Copywrong” – by Rob for Unconventional Wisdom
“Viacom’s flexible attitude toward fair use” – by Matthew Sag for Fairly Useful
PUBLISHED ARTICLES AFTER REINSTATEMENT” Viacom Yields to YouTuber Who DMCA Counterclaimed” – by Slashdot
“Return of the Jedi” – by Ed Cone
“YouTube restores clip downed by Viacom” – by Nick Farrell for The Inquirer
“Viacom admits mistaken DMCA notice after EFF gets involved” – by The UTube Blog
“YouTube restores Viacom-banned VH-1 clip” – by Matt Chapman for vnunet.com
“Viacom Copyright Infringement Lifted” – by The Judge for Media Morgue
“School Board Candidate Beats Viacom” – by Movieweb
“School Board Candidate Beats Viacom” – by contactmusic.com
“YouTube restores controversial clip protested by Viacom” – by Ruben Francia for TECH.BLORGE.com
“YouTube Honors Counter-Notification Versus Viacom” – by Mike Abundo for Inside Online Video
“Man defeats Viacom in DMCA takedown dispute” – by vurbal for afterdawn.com
“Look Before You Upload” – by John Naughton for The Observer
“Fallen Star Wars Clip on YouTube Has Been Restored” – by Kristen Nicole for Mashable
“School Board Candidate Beats Viacom” – by IMDB Studio Briefing
“I’m Back” – by Jeffrey Starr for Not Bad Films
“A banner week for music and copyright” – by chooch for Shuroki Online
“Update: good guy wins, Viacom loses” – by Mike Weiksner for Connected Conversations
If there’s any more that are found, I’ll be sure to post them here also.