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Re: Youtube - "The Civil War in Four Minutes"
'Civil War in Four Minutes' a hit on YouTube
Lincoln museum is not pleased
By DANIEL PIKE
The State Journal-Register [Springfield, Ill.]
May 24, 2007
A popular exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum has been available for months on the YouTube.com Web site, although it appeared Wednesday that the clip might be near the end of its Internet lifespan.
"The Civil War in Four Minutes," an animation that depicts the entire conflict and keeps a running tally of North-South war casualties, was uploaded to YouTube in January.
Jill Burwitz, spokeswoman for the presidential museum, said in an e-mail Wednesday that the museum is working with BRC Imagination Arts - the California-based firm that designed its exhibits - to have the video removed from the site.
YouTube allows any registered user to post videos, which are then available for free to viewers worldwide. The popular site comes under fire, however, when posters upload copyrighted material.
As of Wednesday night, the clip had been viewed more than 81,000 times and "favorited" - a YouTube feature that allows users to pick their favorite videos - nearly 730 times.
The clip was posted on YouTube by "wasserflugzeug," the Internet handle of a 27-year-old man named Eric who lives in Madrid, Spain. Eric declined to provide his full name in an e-mail exchange with a State Journal-Register reporter through the YouTube site.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Eric, who has visited the presidential museum, said he had not yet been asked to remove the video. But text on the video's YouTube page - presumably written by Eric, who as the poster is able to adjust content accompanying the video - says the clip will be taken down soon because of "legal stuff."
"I don't expect anyone from the museum contacting me," Eric wrote, apologizing for his grammar because English is not his "mother language."
"In fact, I really think this is good for them. Now, thanks to this video being in youtube, thousands of people (k)now about it."
The YouTube image is clear and steady, although the musical soundtrack is different than at the presidential museum.
Photography is not allowed inside the museum's exhibits, and Eric didn't reveal how he managed to record the video - other than to say such a task is "difficult, but possible."
After The State Journal-Register's e-mail was first sent to Eric, the clip's online descriptions changed. For example, the video's title was changed sometime Wednesday to read "This video will be deleted soon. Legal stuff, sorry!" A sentence also was added to the page that read: "As many people is asking questions about this video I want to say that I recorded it at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum."
Prior to that, the clip's page did not acknowledge that the video came from the presidential museum.
Some users who left online comments about the video pointed out the clip's museum origin while others seemed to believe the poster created the animation.
Eric wrote that he posted the video because "it is very good! It is worth showing! Just ask the people, they love it! And so do I. I think whoever is the author, he made a great job!"
Eric
'Civil War in Four Minutes' a hit on YouTube
Lincoln museum is not pleased
By DANIEL PIKE
The State Journal-Register [Springfield, Ill.]
May 24, 2007
A popular exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum has been available for months on the YouTube.com Web site, although it appeared Wednesday that the clip might be near the end of its Internet lifespan.
"The Civil War in Four Minutes," an animation that depicts the entire conflict and keeps a running tally of North-South war casualties, was uploaded to YouTube in January.
Jill Burwitz, spokeswoman for the presidential museum, said in an e-mail Wednesday that the museum is working with BRC Imagination Arts - the California-based firm that designed its exhibits - to have the video removed from the site.
YouTube allows any registered user to post videos, which are then available for free to viewers worldwide. The popular site comes under fire, however, when posters upload copyrighted material.
As of Wednesday night, the clip had been viewed more than 81,000 times and "favorited" - a YouTube feature that allows users to pick their favorite videos - nearly 730 times.
The clip was posted on YouTube by "wasserflugzeug," the Internet handle of a 27-year-old man named Eric who lives in Madrid, Spain. Eric declined to provide his full name in an e-mail exchange with a State Journal-Register reporter through the YouTube site.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Eric, who has visited the presidential museum, said he had not yet been asked to remove the video. But text on the video's YouTube page - presumably written by Eric, who as the poster is able to adjust content accompanying the video - says the clip will be taken down soon because of "legal stuff."
"I don't expect anyone from the museum contacting me," Eric wrote, apologizing for his grammar because English is not his "mother language."
"In fact, I really think this is good for them. Now, thanks to this video being in youtube, thousands of people (k)now about it."
The YouTube image is clear and steady, although the musical soundtrack is different than at the presidential museum.
Photography is not allowed inside the museum's exhibits, and Eric didn't reveal how he managed to record the video - other than to say such a task is "difficult, but possible."
After The State Journal-Register's e-mail was first sent to Eric, the clip's online descriptions changed. For example, the video's title was changed sometime Wednesday to read "This video will be deleted soon. Legal stuff, sorry!" A sentence also was added to the page that read: "As many people is asking questions about this video I want to say that I recorded it at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum."
Prior to that, the clip's page did not acknowledge that the video came from the presidential museum.
Some users who left online comments about the video pointed out the clip's museum origin while others seemed to believe the poster created the animation.
Eric wrote that he posted the video because "it is very good! It is worth showing! Just ask the people, they love it! And so do I. I think whoever is the author, he made a great job!"
Eric
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