"Banned" ads and forgotten things have a way of getting unearthed again on the internet, and now with google video and youtube everything old is new again.
Take this Fred Flinstone promotion for Winston cigarettes for example. In the late nineties, any web page that carried the footage would be asked to remove it, since both Winston and Flinstones are trademarks with a posse of lawyers ready to protect them, and so the film went into hiding on the un-googlable gnutella networks, and in the deep storages of avid commercial collectors hard drives.
Now that the film has popped on youtube.com I wonder how long it will take before youtube are asked to remove the ad. And if so, will they comply? What do you reckon?
And if the submissions don't follow Youtube's terms - how will youtube a) know and b) deal with this?
B. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize YouTube to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service; and (ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the User Submission to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service.
You just want someone to ask you to take this down like the (BRAND THAT SHALL NOT BE MENTIONED) ads, admit it!
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PermalinkBesides, winston or flinstones wouldn't bother going after youtube or google video and the likes. They only like to scare amatuers and hobbyists with small websites.
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PermalinkNever say never. We'll see how long this lasts.
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