updated: 02-04-2010: added a specific myspace section and facilitated takedown requests from known record companies and labels.
None of the videos on this site are hosted on this server or any other server under our control. We use special API technology that allows us to embed videos from other video sites. Even if you don't see any logo from the original site (like MySpace to just give one example), the video file itself is still hosted by MySpace on their servers and not here or on any server we have access to. We're streaming the video file directly in our player instead of using their player. When in doubt, or if you don't believe me, feel free to look at the source code of the page you want removed.
If there are any DMCA copyright issues, you'll have to contact the site that is hosting the video. We can not remove any file from a server we don't have access to.
If you want a video removed from our database, please use our contact form to send me your official business email address and I will contact you, so you can send me an official DMCA takedown request if necessary. I will take down any video, without any further delay or discussion, if that is requested properly, that is: using an official verifiable email address (no gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc) and if necessary the correct legal procedures and/or documents.
If you're contacting me from a record company, label or management company that I can recognize from the email address, you can just contact me and ask for a removal. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. No need to waste any time and/or money on the legal DMCA requirements. I'm not your enemy and I'll usually be happy to comply with your request.
The idea behind this site is to promote music. If you don't want your music to be promoted here, who am I to disagree? That would really be silly, wouldn't it? Let's work with each other instead of against each other.
There are too many clowns active on the internet, that's why we would like to see an official and legally correct DMCA takedown request before removing any video in some cases. Jokers might want to take notice that there are severe penalties for false DMCA takedown notices.
All videos on this site are embedded using the official API interfaces as provided by the respective video sites, (namely DailyMotion, YouTube, Google Video, MySpace TV, and MTV) and this in accordance and in full compliance with their respective terms of service.
There is no way for us to establish, legally or otherwise, whether any of the video sites we use are hosting the content we use illegally or whether they have any agreements/contracts with copyright holders and licensing collecting agencies or not. We therefore can only assume that they are acting "in good faith" and that by allowing us to embed their content, they do not make us accomplice to any copyright or licensing violations.
We do not upload any videos anywhere ourselves. We only use what has been uploaded by existing members of the video sites we use. Lately we are using mostly official videos posted by record companies and labels in an attempt to stay out of the copyright quagmire.
Licensing Issues: for any licensing issues please consult the copyright policies of the sites listed below and use the contact addresses there:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/t/dmca_policy
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.terms
DailyMotion: Terms - Copyright Policies
MySpace videos: we just recently discovered that myspace obviously doesn't delete the actual video files off their servers when a video gets deleted from myspace, and that also after a DMCA takedown request to myspace. It looks like they set a flag in their system so it knows that file is blocked and all pages on myspace using that file won't work anymore, or display a 'this video was deleted" error message, but the actual video file itself is still there. That puts us in a somewhat awkward position, because it is impossible for us to know if a video was deleted or taken down from myspace as long as the stream link to the actual video file, which is what we get from the API and store in our database is still working. That's why it can happen that a video is "deleted" or "removed" from myspace but is still working on our site. If that is the case and if you are authorised to request a takedown, just contact me and I will look into it and remove the video from our database. Record companies and labels should really demand myspace change this policy and delete the actual video file off their servers. What happens now is that myspace basically claims and retains ownership of all video files on their servers if they do not allow a user/contributor to delete the actual video file. How can that be acceptable to copyright holders?
Ooops...: if it should happen that somebody at your company uploads a video to myspace before it's promotion campaign is ready... people can make mistakes sometimes... and it ends up on this site, even though you tried to correct it by deleting it from myspace (see previous paragraph), just contact me A.S.A.P. if you want it removed until you got your promotion campaign ready. This happened a couple of times lately. The sooner you contact me the sooner I can remove it. You don't need a DMCA takedown request, just contact me using a company email address. I don't want to interfere in any way with your (expensive) promotion campaigns or any "exclusivity" contracts you might have.
The "© The Fuzzy Tube" notice in the footer of this site only applies to the design/layout/programming of the website. It does in no way represent any claim on copyrights of any of the videos on this site.
PS: If you contact me, please let's behave as adults; if you're friendly and polite with me you'll very likely find me being reasonable, understanding and cooperative, if however you start out by bullying me don't be surprised if I'll ignore you or even tell you to fuck off. That's entirely your choice. I'm not easily intimidated so let's communicate as equals instead.
FYI: this is just a small site, tucked away in a subdirectory, with approx 3-4.000 dedicated visitors per day, and with my stubborn personal choice of what gets posted here I will make sure it will stay that way. I don't have any ambition to end up with a mega-site. A small site where real music lovers can discover new music or rediscover older stuff is what this place is meant to be. We're not competing with anybody, we're in a league of our own, nor are we harming anyone I'd like to think. Compare it to a little local radio station that people turn to for an hour or so to chill out from a long hard day. No nonsense, no pressure, no hype.
