Am I being watched? Not that I mind the recent spike in my hit count, I do believe it has everything to do with the recent trouble on YouTube.
Current opinion from other fan film makers range in opinion. Not that they’re lawyers or anything, but if my film goes down in means that theirs could be next (and believe me, many of them actually infringe on copyright).
I also have to wonder if the lawyer or lawyers from Lucasfilm who sent that DMCA notice to YouTube noticed the site promoted at the end of the film and in the description and if they’ve bothered to visit. I’m sure they can’t post anything in response but I still want to know why? Give me a good reason for that film being pulled. Unless you’re planning on offering me a distribution deal or a film contract I pretty well think that they’ve over stepped on this one.
Does this play into the recent theory that Atomfilms will be the only distributor of Star Wars fan films? Or perhaps that copyright holders as a group hate YouTube because so many people blatantly break the rules. Or maybe somebody was bored and surfing and somehow found my little movie. So what about all the others up there? When will they come down?
Just for reference folks I did a grab of the page where the film used to be. Maybe I should just consider it a badge of honor that the man has come after me. The man attempts to crush me.
Better yet, here’s a grab of the letter that YouTube sent me. The man puts a the squeeze on me some more.
Stay tuned kids, nobody knows how long before the men in black show up at my house.
