Bye Bye Baba Booey Video

Jun 01, 2007 11:09 AM
Tags: howard, law, video, youtube

Someone DMCA'd my two very popular YouTube videos of Howard Stern personality Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate clumsily apologizing to an ex-girlfriend.

What I don't get is this: who benefits from grainy 7-year-old video footage of a 20-year-old video tape being nixed?

This is purely free promotion for the damn show, not something that competes with their sales. It's not like you can go to a store and buy the Baba Booey "apology tape" episode.

Intellectual property lawyers (or at least 99% of them) can suck my dick.


Comments: Bye Bye Baba Booey Video

Anyone can file a DMCA request. They don't have to be a lawyer.

Posted by: Bubba on June 1, 2007 11:55 AM | permalink

I really would have liked to see the title of this post be Bye Bye Booey Video.

Right now my personal blog is at like a noine, but my YouTube videos are like a two. I miss you, man.

Posted by: ChuckJerry on June 1, 2007 3:11 PM | permalink

"I'm not the begging type"

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on June 1, 2007 4:53 PM | permalink

*cough*

I will assume that my husband falls in the 1%.

Posted by: Lori on June 2, 2007 12:41 PM | permalink

Yeah, my friend Brian does that (or at least did?). I'm probably painting with an overly-broad brush stroke. But man, there is some dastardly stuff that goes on in the name of copyright; I think the original concept has been greatly perverted into a way of unfairly maximizing profit and stifling innovation or competition.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on June 2, 2007 3:24 PM | permalink

Well, you can hate on copyright lawyers all you want, Josh just does patents and trademarks. :)

Posted by: Lori on June 2, 2007 6:22 PM | permalink

I think there should be patent reform, but I don't think they're entirely worthless -- just abused by companies like Amazon with their One-Click. Trademarks' value is indisputable. Copyright needs an enormous overhaul, and -- making things worse -- it's moving in the wrong direction. IANAL.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on June 3, 2007 1:02 PM | permalink

No more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.