You may have read the controversy over the Richter Scales’ video Here Comes Another Bubble, a smart, clever sendup of Web 2.0 culture done to a Billy Joel tune.
Lane Hartwell objected to the band’s inclusion of her photo (for a split second) in their mash-up — yes, they should have attributed her contribution or used a photo with a Creative Commons license and attributed the photographer — and sent YouTube a takedown notice. ValleyWag covered it with a post titled, Here Comes Another Takedown.
So the band just released version 1.1 of the video, sans Hartwell’s photo and with (too-quick) credits at the end. Footnote: I’m one of the photographers credited, for my shot of Robert Scoble during his book release party. I thought that shot looked familiar!
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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