This
happened in the year 2012. I was back from my school reunion. That is BVBPS Hyd
RCPuram Class of 1983. The best reunion ever
ever ever. The two-day affair is more memorable than my wedding day. Really.
Well.
I became the self-appointed reunion archivist and went about collecting pics
and video from the people who flashed their cams during the reunion. And I
loaded videos on YouTube and lo... One video got banned right away. WT hell...
The
reason - the video, they said, contained copyrighted material. What? I couldn’t
believe it.
I
protested, objected but to no avail.
What
happened was this -Saregama saw the video which had us goofing around having a
nice time and said that they have the copyright to the Amitabh song 'Rote Hue
Aate Hai Sub' from Mukaddar Ka Sikandar. It was a laugh. We have copycats making
outright copies of songs for a commercial purpose and here we are with a video
that is miles away from infringing any copyright.
They
asked me to remove the video. I refused. They said they will close my channel.
I said I will take them to court. It went on and on (and is not yet concluded).
It did result in a change of thinking and YouTube policy. We can now upload say
old Hindi songs but all the likes and comments will be attributed to the
original content creator. Nevertheless, that doesn’t apply to this video. It
shouldn’t have been blocked in the first place.
Please
see for yourself and let me know whether or not we have even remotely infringed
the rights of Amitabh Bachchan, Prakash Mehra, Kalyanji Anandji and Anjaan.
And
50 bucks if you can name the peeps in the video.....
This is the video
For those who want to know what out class has been thru, here is the link.
#youtube #ban #amitabh #bollywood #reunion #classof83 #bvbps #hyderabad
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