The copyright police are working 24/7 by the look of it. I have a personal Brightcove account which I admit has been laying dormant for some time. It appears the Brightcove people have flagged my videos up there as suspect. The first two, you will note, are by Menomena and Boy Eats Drum Machine - so my new band mate in Faux Hoax, Danny, is suing me??!! And Jon Ragel, the man who posts like crazy here at the Moose - suing me??!! Nah, I didn’t think so but it does show you that rampant copyright policing will eventually lead to a lack of cool, creative stuff - more art basically - as people begin to fear being sued for infringement. Big brother has arrived.

File number three, by the way, is a video of an interview I shot with the lead singer of Pilate, a Canadian band. I didn’t get around to using it in time for a show they played at Doug Fir so I posted it on Brightcove. The last file, a video of Thom Yorke’s Harrowdown Hill by noted interactive and motion producer, Portland’s very own Chel White is available everywhere online.

“Files within the Brightcove account named ‘xxx@comcast.net’ [I removed my personal email address - Dave] have recently been identified as containing copyright protected material. As a result, the file(s) listed below have been disabled and will be deleted in 5 business days. If you believe you have appropriate rights to use and distribute the file(s) through the Brightcove Service and wish to prevent the deletion of the file(s), please review the FAQ [http://studio.brightcove.com/library/faq/copyright_flag_faq.cfm] for next steps. You can also refer to the Brightcove Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.brightcove.com/legal/terms_general.cfm.

1. ‘Eunuch-H.264 300Kbps Streaming.mov’ (Asset ID 488098879) : The song ‘Eunuch’ by Boy Eats Drum Machine from the album ‘Pleasure’ (boy eats drum machine; 19-Oct-2005) was identified.

2. ‘Menomena_CoughCoughing.mp4′ (Asset ID 490692320) : The song ‘Cough Coughing’ by Menomena from the album ‘I’m Am The Fun Blame Monster!’ (CDBaby) was identified.

3. ‘pilot-press-barely-listening.mov’ (Asset ID 570330423) : The song ‘Barely Listening [CC, Album Version]‘ by Pilate from the album ‘Barely Listening’ (UMG) was identified.

4. ‘HH_480x.mov’ (Asset ID 650214236) : The song ‘Harrowdown Hill’ by Thom Yorke from the album ‘Harrowdown Hill (Single)’ (XL RECORDINGS; 21-Aug-2006) was identified.

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