CW11 Foolishly Files Copyright Claim for April Fool’s Video

On April Fools Day, Improv Everywhere, a well known prank group, posted a fake video of members crashing a funeral which fooled plenty of people who thought it was real, including CW 11. Clearly embarrassed, the television network filed a copyright claim with YouTube to take down video of their flub, ignoring the fact that they aired Improv Everywhere’s footage without permission. Charlie Todd of IE asks, “It’s “fair use” for the news to take a video off of YouTube and broadcast it, but it’s not “fair use” for a citizen to expose their poor reporting on his own content?” Don’t worry though, the video is still hosted elsewhere so have another laugh at CW 11′s fact checking failure. |Improv Everywhere via Boing Boing|

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By on April 16, 2009 at 1:19 pm
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CW11 Falls for Improv Everywhere’s April Fool’s Joke

Public pranking sketch comedy group, Improv Everywhere, released a video on April 1st of what appeared to show its members crashing a funeral. Although the troupe loves to cause a scene, they’re hardly ever malicious and most rational thinking people assumed it was an elaborate hoax. But not CW11. Instead of engaging in any kind of fact checking, the network ran a piece about the action as if it was real, condemning the group for their insensitivity. |Improv Everywhere via City Room|

By on April 3, 2009 at 11:51 am
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