[Infowarrior] - Luge death videos pulled over broadcast rights

[Richard Forno]

http://www.mediabistro.com/webnewser/video_sites/olympic_luge_competitor_killed_videos_quickly_pulled_from_youtube_152019.asp

Olympic Luge Competitor Killed; Videos Quickly Pulled from YouTube

By Kevin Allocca on Feb 12, 2010 03:56 PM

Immediately after news broke that 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili, a member of the Georgian luge team at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, had been in a serious crash, the footage of the event was quickly posted on YouTube and tweeted around the world.

But within moments of being posted, the videos began disappearing, with the note:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by International Olympic Committee.
Some of those videos posted originated from CTV, which broadcast the footage after the event and is the Canadian rights-holder to the games. One was just a camera videotaping a television screen with the CTV program.

It's interesting to see the IOC spring to action asserting copyright claims for video of a news event, particularly when the video is from a major news broadcast and not directly from the IOC. And the games haven't even begun!

Eventually, the video found its way onto custom video players at other sites (like Huffpost) and onto the social media site twitvid, where it's likely harder to assert copyright claim. We've posted it after the jump from a site called iviewtube.com. (Warning: it is disturbing.)