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Wow, I beat my record for the amount of videos that I filmed and have posted from a 4-day consumer electronics conference. I uploaded 72 videos to Youtube from CES 2010 in HD 1280×720 9mbit/s quality. And I still have at least 2 more videos that I can think of that I forgot to upload yet which I will get to upload during the next couple of days. 22 of those videos have so far reached audiences of more than 1000 viewers, which I think is lower than I would have hoped for. I did not have any time during my trip in the USA to try to promote my best videos for trying to get them embedded on the big technology news blogs. And also, the big technology news blogs like Engadget and Gizmodo had their own armies of 20+ bloggers each doing all the coverage that they needed. Engadget for example brags about having published 700 posts during CES (I didn’t count them), that wouldn’t leave much space for them to think about embedding any other small video-bloggers videos even if those might be better than their own ones. My new site http://ARMdevices.net is also only just launched right now before CES, I need to work on optimizing the features, especially the comments and social networking aspects of it.

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At the Copenhagen Film Festival CPH:PIX 16-26th of April 2009, I have filmed 64 interviews with the film directors and regular people when they exited the cinemas and asking them what they think about the movie premieres that they just saw. You can see all my videos on this Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/filmviews

My full Youtube account has been restored, perhaps thanks to the help in pressure and attention from the blogs at newteevee.com, techdirt.com and the support on friendfeed and twitter:

Dear Nicolas,

Thank you for your counternotification. Fox has retracted its copyright
claim with respect to the following videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7iphIFyoY

This content has been restored and I have reactivated your accounts. For
technical reasons, it may take a day for the video to be available again.
Please let us know if you have any further issues.

Sincerely,

Harry
The YouTube Team

In a terrible mistake by self proclaimed Internet DMCA enforcer BayTSP, DMCA takedown notices were issued on thousands of Youtube videos that all were created by users legally for a video mashup competition on the Burger King sponsored Youtube channel, where users were invited to record their own voice-overs on Seth Macfarlane’s cavalcade of comedy cartoon series. I participated in that, and I recorded a kind of funny voice-over on the video with the two ducks watching TV.

from Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation about Duck TV Charbax 1 - Charbax
Video ID: Sb7iphIFyoY

Without warning, about 2 days ago, Youtube then suspended my account and have issued me with automated email replies when I tried to contact copyright@youtube.com and support@youtube.com with the following messages:

“Suspended accounts cannot be reinstated.”

“Your account has now been terminated”

“Note: In the event that your account is restored, your account information such as videos and comments will NOT be restored.”

This would be a totally catastrophic result for me if true. My Youtube account is a very important part of my online presence and a very important part of my freelance video-blogging business and of my prospects of making money doing freelance video-blogging. Youtube also says I may not setup any other Youtube account in the future. I cannot accept any of those scenarios, all resulting of a false copyright claim by BayTSP on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox.

“Federal law requires that we terminate accounts when there are repeated claims of copyright infringement.”

At the same time, Youtube also did surprise me with two other notices of supposed copyright violations that I would have committed on another Youtube account which I bought on Oct 15, 2008 from someone to then hand over to a french company named Archos who I thought needed a better presence on Youtube. I am very certain that Archos only uploaded totally legal videos about their products and also used the account to answer Youtube users comments on different Archos related videos:

from World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. about Edge’s WWF Debut - Archos
Video ID: Co1BuPIYrF4
from Viacom International, Inc. about Eight Man Tag: Steiner Brothers/Basham/Damaja Vs VKM/Team 3D - Archos
Video ID: 98WnaZ3od7I

I have though no idea what those videos are. I don’t know if those copyright infringements were takend down before the 15th of October 2008, the date when I took over that Archos youtube account from a user of which I only have his original paypal account on which I paid the $50 to get that account name.

Should Youtube penalize me for supposed copyright violations that a user did on a Youtube account more than 6 months ago, before I bought the account from him and handed it over to a french company?

Should Youtube suspend my Charbax Youtube account and the Archos one on the basis of that mistaken takedown notice sent by BayTSP on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox for a video that I created for fun using a flash based voice-over recording application hosted at http://youtube.com/bk and probably even developped by Youtube engineers as a promotional tool and which would upload the resulting video directly to my Youtube account for archival and for promotion of their voice-over cartoon promotion and competition?

Here I am hoping strongly that Youtube can promptly restore my full Youtube account, with all of my about 400 videos, all of their viewing histories, search rankings on Google and Youtube, all user comments on my videos, all my comments on other videos and all of my ratings.

All the while, my story is being covered at http://newteevee.com/2009/05/05/20th-century-fox-sics-takedown-notices-on-its-own-mashup-promotion/ and http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-howto/browse_thread/thread/73da5e7e013ff2c7. I have sent the signed DMCA Counter notice as described in the Youtube DMCA Help page copyright@youtube.com, I have emailed copyright@youtube.com and support@youtube.com several times, I have left phone messages on the answering machines of BayTSP, Media Rights Capital and even at a Marketing representative of Burger King. So far, my Youtube account has been suspended for more than 2 days, and I still haven’t gotten any direct reply from any real person at Youtube, BayTSP, 20th Century Fox, MRC, Seth Macfarlane or anyone else about the resolution of this problem.

I understand that it must be hard for Youtube to handle the millions of Youtube accounts that upload thousands of videos everyday, the billions of video views and the thousands of copyright owners complaining about the insufficient monetization or just complaining about their content being copied without their rights. I though also think that Youtube should the responsibility to have implemented a global solution for copyrights, for the maximum monetization of independent and major studio contents and especially for the fair treatment of independent video-bloggers like me who are relying on Google to implement Adsense-like monetization on freelance and independent Youtube video projects.

In these times of the global economic turmoil, Charbax consults with his economic advisors to present the world with an economic rescue package that may or may not save the economy.

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First episode of the new series on your Internet channel. These are going to be a whole bunch of videos of me talking about all kinds of relevant and newsworthy topics. First topic is Joe Biden, the new vice-presidential candidate for the Democrats. I try to give him some good advice if he wants to help Barack Obama win the election.

DivX HD 1280×720 3.5mbit/s: Play, Download (169mb)

Flash versions (high quality): Youtube

Flash versions: Blip, Viddler, Putfile

Intro music Blup by http://maf464.free.fr

This very compact video player has a 2.4″ screen, VGA to Full DVD resolution DivX playback, 20GB, compact flash, TV output, games. Someone even found a way to install a Nintendo NES games emulator.

This video was originally released in 2004 at http://archosfans.com

When Lisa sees the John Bon Jovi in the supermarket, she figures she might want to kill him. This is a movie so everything is possible. Watch your hats.

I am the scriptwriter, third week at the European Film College around September 2002. I might add more credits to this film if I am allowed.

This is the war in Iraq before it happened, from the european point of view. Did Bush destroy evil? Does he escape?

Filmed, written by Charbax, at the European Film College in October 2002.

An ode to chinese kung fu, japanese samourai and blaxploitation. This is an ode to the ode. In this episode, the bride is looking for revenge.

Filmed by Charbax in Copenhagen in 2003, music used with permission by http://maf464.free.fr