{"id":245037,"date":"2010-01-28T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100127\/1524037949.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:48:00","slug":"as-emi-cites-harvey-danger-lipdub-as-inducing-infringement-harvey-danger-singer-says-lipdub-makes-him-incredibly-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/245037","title":{"rendered":"As EMI Cites Harvey Danger Lipdub As Inducing Infringement, Harvey Danger Singer Says Lipdub Makes Him Incredibly Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may recall back in December that we wrote about the oddity of EMI suing Vimeo<\/a>, claiming that by creating its own “lipdub” videos of people singing along to a song, it was actively encouraging (i.e., “inducing”) copyright infringement. The main example, of course, was the company’s first lipdub, which kicked off the craze, to the song Flagpole Sitta<\/i> by the band Harvey Danger:
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Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger<\/a> from amandalynferri<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nTo claim that this is somehow harmful to EMI is flat-out ridiculous. The song got a lot<\/i> more attention because of this video (which currently has over 2.3 million views) — and almost certainly helped the band and EMI out in terms of sales. And yet, EMI says it was harmful. The Citizen Media Law Project<\/a> points out that the lead singer of Harvey Danger appears to disagree in a big way<\/a>, having sent Vimeo an email after that lipdub video came out:<\/p>\n


\nThat <\/i>Flagpole Sitta<\/i> video made me incredibly happy, just when I thought there was NOTHING that could make me listen to that song again. A thousand thank you’s.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A thousand thank yous… and a lawsuit from your label.<\/p>\n

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You may recall back in December that we wrote about the oddity of EMI suing Vimeo, claiming that by creating its own “lipdub” videos of people singing along to a song, it was actively encouraging (i.e., “inducing”) copyright infringement. The main example, of course, was the company’s first lipdub, which kicked off the craze, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}