OT: Asahi TV Corporation Released Its Copyright Claim on My Video (Whose Copyright Belongs to TEPCO)

Update on the Asahi TV's copyright claim on TEPCO's video on my channel.

Youtube just emailed me kindly that:

TV Asahi Corporation has reviewed your dispute and released its copyright claim on your video, "Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Video of Inside the Reactor 1, 10/18/2011".

Maybe I should alert TEPCO that Asahi TV was claiming the copyright on their video.

This particular video has been viewed over 22,000 times. It is the footage of October 18, 2011 excursion by TEPCO workers inside the Reactor 1 building.

More recently in Reactor 1, workers went to the 1st floor to measure the temperatures, radiation levels, and water depth through the gap on the floor. They measured over 10 sieverts/hour radiation 20 centimeter above the surface of the basement water.

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OT: TV Asahi Corporation Claims TEPCO Video as Their Own

Funny things have happened in the past 15 months, and this is the latest.

I got an email from Youtube telling me one of the videos I uploaded on my Youtube channel last year is in copyright violation and Youtube is penalizing my account status. I went to look at which video and what entity is claiming the violation.

After all, all the videos I post there is directly from TEPCO's Photos and Videos page, with the explicit word from TEPCO that the use of the videos and photos on the page does not need a written permission. The video in question is right from that page, as with any other videos that I have posted.

It is the video from October last year, in which TEPCO employees investigated the upper floors of Reactor 1 building, braving the high radiation.

Is TEPCO claiming the copyright violation?

No it was TV Asahi Corporation.

Huh?

I've disputed the claim as preposterous on Asahi's part to claim TEPCO's video as their own. During the dispute, the video is still on my channel. The video is always available on TEPCO's site (in Japanese, and in English).

It's quite puzzling, pointless, nothing short of harassment.

I remember Yomiuri claimed the copyright of the aerial footage of the plant taken by the Self Defense Force last year, and the video was taken down.

It also attests to the laziness of Youtube, who simply takes the word of any entity claiming "copyright".

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Bank vs Credit Union

Video from Bankerspank.com, fashioned after the Apple/PC commercial.

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OT: Chicken Techno Remix

Today's gem from Youtube video.

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