CNN Uses Copyright To Block Viral Clip Of Van Jones' Impassioned Statement
from the can't-have-people-hear-that-without-paying-cnn dept
This election year may have been something of a clusterfuck for just about everyone... but it was damn good for CNN. The cable news channel that was generally filled with some of the most idiotic and meaningless banter made out like a bandit, apparently bringing in a billion dollars in profit by being the country's official organ player in a grand circus of political entertainment. The hiring of direct partisans on both sides, the failure to do very much actual deep looking at anything, and the complete pointlessness of whatever a Wolf Blitzer is all seemed to delight in turning anything about issues into horse race he said/she said soundbites.And now it's being an annoying copyright asshole too.
As you may have heard, on election night, as the results rolled in, Clinton surrogate Van Jones made a very impassioned speech about the very real fear that he and many others felt about the results. It's worth watching.
“CNN views this as a violation of our intellectual property rights,” said Andrew Morse, executive vice president of editorial for CNN, which is owned by Time Warner Inc.’s Turner. “We take that very seriously. The video was used without attribution or permission. We are currently exploring our options with regards to NowThis, Facebook and Twitter.”To be fair, it looks like CNN's main focus is on a specific operation -- NowThis -- which was sharing the clip and was able to get more Facebook and Twitter shares of the video than CNN's own team. But, really, what does that say about CNN's social media operations -- that they let some other third-party get the jump on them and better promote their own videos? Is it infringement? It's possible, though I think there's a strong fair use argument there as well. But either way, that's not even the point. Here was a chance to actually share a rare "real" rather than plastic moment on CNN with lots and lots of people, and CNN was so focused on how it directly impacted their bottom line that they had to shut it down for anyone getting attention for it that wasn't CNN directly.
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Emotional blather based on lies
Go to Wikileaks and read what the DNC think of minorities. Look for the phrase "taco bowl". Look at the condescending attitude of the liberal elites to middle America. Watch the video below to see their condescending attitude toward minorities.
My fear is the left will not figure out why they lost and will continue their false gender war, race war and class war. Come to the table and talk ideas or keep suffering defeat (see link below).
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jan/25/cokie-roberts/have-democrats-lost -900-seats-state-legislatures-o/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odB1wWPqSlE
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Re: Emotional blather based on lies
Who the hell would they talk to? Like the UK, modern US politics is based on selecting whichever faeces-throwing primate is left least odoriferous when the music stops. Any table in the middle of that is undoubtedly going to be covered in shit.
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Re: Re: Emotional blather based on lies
All of Donald's commercials were about how America can be great again.
One of those messages was better received by the American public.
Only one candidate was flinging feces.
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[Sad but True]
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Re: Emotional blather based on lies
Yes, lies don't work anymore. /s
Tell me that again after seeing how Trump works as president in a few months... Or check right now who's left after he "drains the swamp".
Also, fear doesn't work anymore, says you who (apparently) supports a guy who did get elected on messages of fear, hate and division.
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Left did not lose ... anti-establishment won
Trump is an outsider, had to fight the establishment to stay on the ticket, and it's hoped he will clean political house. Likely he will be a bigger disappointment but at least he is an outsider.
With a bit more organization, and ignoring the clowns in the MTM, maybe we can build infrastructure outside the mainstream to get this right sometime in the future.
Who could possibly have believed Clinton was the chosen one?
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Re: Left did not lose ... anti-establishment won
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The left isn't even in the picture. The right wing of the democrats booted them out, and now the democrats are loosing as well.
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Re: Left did not lose ... anti-establishment won
His circus act is just enough to keep everyone distracted. He's not an outsider at all, he's a bloody real estate billionaire. He just comes from the corporate side of the establishment, not the government side.
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Understanding a Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Blitzers are easily identified by their catchphrase, "We'll be right back after these messages".
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The problem is that people like their aggregated news and whatever feeds and sites. If you don't know how to monetize your aggregated content, if you truly must, then that is your problem, regardless as to whether use is infringing or not.
If all sites were not so hellishly heavy, people would be more inclined to visit more individual sites. Business drove this, and now people, aside from being too lazy to really delve into anything most of the time, or even click through, or read past a headline or blurb, are much more reluctant to try and load one more overbearing page that might hang the browser or app and will stick with one of their preferred aggregators (and aggregators of aggregators of aggregators...), however good or bad they may be.
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Take that clip, edit out anything CNN, replace it with WAP ( Without Attribution or Permission ) put some other stuff on there like a ruling ticker saying crao like "WAP, where news goes to die" "WAP working hard to CNN ( Cover up Network News)"
Post my transformative parody and tell them to enjoy.
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AGGRAVATED news...
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van jones ? ? ?
i care what a shill for payday loansharks says ? ? ?
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Continuously Negative News
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Van Jones is acting like a whiney little bitch
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Re: Van Jones is acting like a whiney little bitch
White men have been presidents for centuries, finally we get a black one, next we needed a white woman and then a black woman. Then we can get a gay black Jew into office. Personally I'm waiting for the gay transgender hermaphrodite interracial African Chinese Indian Latino former Christian turned atheist to get elected president. Who could pass up voting for that?!
When Dr. King was fighting for civil rights some asshole racist said something like judge people by their character not their appearance. I'm glad King was there to point out that it should be the other way around!
I voted for Obama because he's was black, I voted for Clinton because she was a woman. If you voted for their opponents that makes you a misogynist racist!
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Odd
And yet all the comments are from people whining about stuff totally unrelated to the story because they want to get political. No one gives a shit if you like the people in the video. That has nothing to do with this story. You look foolish commenting on that.
Stop it. Go off to some other site. There was nothing political about this post.
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Mike, how are you falling into CNN like practice of bashing your commenters (FANS) for commenting on your piece, in ways you don't like (IYO off topic) when your writing is obviously to blame when you can't even write one story without the implicit bash of DJT (no one cares if you don't like him, we care about the opinions on the subjects WE COME HERE FOR).
So sad that I might have to finally ditch this site and label it a rag like so many others. Please stop so I don't have to.
(Anon for years)
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Re: Odd
What did you think the comments section was going to look like?
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This is not one of those times.
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CNN joined the Trumpsuckers for profit
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CNN won't have a real conversation about how Obama promised transparency and failed. He invited industry interests to negotiate trade agreements in secret while leaving the entire public out of the discussion. He went after whistle blowers.
They don't want to have a real discussion about how Hillary will also cater to industry interests because she is also bought and paid for just like Obama. She was in favor of TPP because she was catering to industry interests and only temporarily suspended her favoritism for it to get votes because she knew, even before running for president, that the people don't want this agreement. But everyone knows that as soon as she gets elected she will either 'fix' TPP, but not really fix it, or she will push for similar legislation intended to cater to industry interests.
If CNN really wants to have a real conversation about this why don't they put Mike Masnick on their show and let him have a real conversation about this. A real conversation about how our existing copy'right' laws have been bought and paid for by industry interests and are not what the people want. A real conversation about how a few corporations have managed to use government to monopolize broadcasting spectra and cableco/broadband distribution. Lets have that real conversation CNN. You won't because you are exactly part of the problem. You benefit from these corporate bought laws that Hillary was expected to help you push.
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The media has no interest in actually discussing the issues because they are exactly part of the problem.
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