Business in Hollywood: we take a video from YouTube, insert it into our cartoon, we demand to remove the original movie

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA ) is designed to protect the copyrights of companies and individuals. True, in many cases this law is abused - sometimes for receiving benefits (monetary or otherwise), sometimes it is not clear why.

For example, the American television network Fox Broadcasting Company (often referred to simply as Fox) decided to use one of the YouTube videos in the animated series "Griffins". This video was nothing special - just a record of the gameplay for Nintendo in the late 80s of the last century. The video showed a trick in the game Double Dribble, allowing the player to score extra points. The video was uploaded in 2009, and only recently it was noticed by Fox representatives.

In the last episode of the animated series, “ Run, Chris, Run “, the cartoon characters decided to entertain themselves with this video game. Peter Griffin did not play too well, and decided to use a glitch to win. Here is part of the episode with the prefix (it is still available on YouTube):


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The video was uploaded by the author sw1tched in 2009. “This is an automatic shot, discovered by me and my brother at NES Double Dribble back in the 80s, when the game was released. I know that others are also aware of this glitch, but from a certain point a throw is automatic. A throw from the middle of the floor makes it easy to win, but I decided not to continue recording, ”the video commentary says.

In "Family Guy" this video is used entirely. It is unclear whether the company requested the permission of the author of the video for use in a cartoon or not, but we see the video.

The next step of the company was very strange. As soon as a new episode of “Griffin” was released with the video mentioned above, the company demanded that Google remove the original video from YouTube, thereby taking advantage of the copyright law.



Google has blocked the video (it’s hardly a long time for them to figure out who the real owner of the video is and why the video needs to be removed) Most likely, the video was deleted automatically by YouTube Content ID. It may well be that after the release of the “Griffin” episode, the company's spider began to check Youtube for the presence of copies of the episode, and came across this video, after which a complaint was filed.

But be that as it may, the situation looks ridiculous. Double Dribble was released in 1987, 12 years before the first episode of The Griffins (1999). The video with the glitch of the game was uploaded 7 years ago. Fox copied the video, inserted it into its cartoon, and demanded to remove the video.

PROFIT!