Thousands upon thousands of people have closely followed an incident involving WHAS11 and Page One/The ‘Ville Voice over alleged copyright infringement. (Yes, we’re surprised by the sheer numbers.) On October 25th someone at WHAS11 wrongly filed a complaint with YouTube which resulted in the removal of video excerpts our media operation was using […]

[Read more →]

LEO’s Jennifer Oladipo delves into the WHAS11 Fair Use mess as the paper’s feature News story. You’ll recall that two weeks ago someone at WHAS11 wrongly accused us at Page One and The ‘Ville Voice of copyright infringement. The accusation resulted in the loss of major video that was making a national impact and […]

[Read more →]

We were informed last evening, October 31 at 6:31 P.M., that our counter-notification to WHAS11’s wrongful copyright infringement claim has been forwarded to the station.
Oct 31, 2007 6:31 PM
Dear Jacob,
Thank you for your counter-notification. It has been forwarded to the
party that sent the takedown notification. If we receive no response, your
material will be restored between […]

[Read more →]

There are over 2,000 WHAS11 videos on YouTube and more than 45,000 Google results for “WHAS11 video.” Surprising, isn’t it? If so much of that station’s footage is allowed to virally spread across the internet, why on earth would anyone at that station single us out for a mere ten video clips? […]

[Read more →]

Last Friday, someone at WHAS-TV requested that YouTube remove 10 videos from its site, claiming copyright infringement. Those videos had been posted under the name “kentuckyinsider” — the account we use here at TheVilleVoice, and our sister site, PageOneKentucky, to post video that we feature in our content. We sometimes pick up segments of newscasts […]

[Read more →]