OT, but possibly interesting; from Slashdot:

[Dan Goncharoff]

http://mashable.com/2012/08/06/nasa-mars-youtube-blocked/

UPDATE: Here’s the official apology statement from Scripps: “We apologize
for the temporary inconvenience experienced when trying to upload and view
a NASA clip early Monday morning. We made a mistake. We reacted as quickly
as possible to make the video viewable again, and we’ve adjusted our
workflow processes to remedy the situation in the future.”

DanG


On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown
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> "NASA's livestream coverage of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars
> was practically as flawless as the landing itself. But NASA couldn't
> prepare for everything. An hour or so after Curiosity's 1.31 a.m. EST
> landing in Gale Crater,the space agency's main YouTube channel posted
> a 13-minute excerpt of the stream. Ten minutes later, the video was
> gone, replaced with the message: 'This video contains content from
> Scripps Local News, which has blocked it on copyright grounds. Sorry
> about that.' That is to say, a NASA-made video posted on NASA's
> official YouTube channel, documenting the landing of a $2.5 billion
> Mars rover mission paid for with public taxpayer money, was blocked by
> YouTube because of a copyright claim by a private news service."
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