YouTube shut down a guy who used to have a bunch of old NBC-era Letterman clips because he had some vintage MLB highlight video posted on his channel.
I don't doubt it. MLBAM is completely fascist about anything even remotely baseball related being posted to YouTube.
I helped some groups with a complaint to the FTC about MLB and the NFL (and some other shady characters) constantly repeating that you're not allowed to use *any* of their copyrighted material without permission. Because, you know, that's not true--but lots of people get their ridiculously broad notions of copyright from public pronouncements like that. Didn't go anywhere. We need to someone to actually get sued by MLB for posting some decades-old clip in a very fair-use kind of way, but most people quite rationally chicken out.
Back to the topic, I'm only 60% convinced that Martin Short is really going to be on the show. Tom needs to have some kind of special "non-fake-guest" alert. I wasn't convinced that Bruce Campbell was going to be on that one show until I heard his sparkling wit.
Similar to what happened to me. I posted some spring training previews from 20+ years ago I had on an old VHS tape, and got a cease and desist. I took it down just to avoid trouble. Eventually, they shut me down for some fairly innocuous interview with Roger Clemens and Nolan Ryan circa 1989.
What really sucks is that I had a ton of old commercials and general nonsense in my account, as well as the aforementioned Ed Grimley cartoon clips. It's all stuff I could post again, but it took months and months of accumulated effort, which I can't really devote any more. Oh well.
