I'm getting dizzy...

This should boggle your mind - a faked Improv Everywhere video (for April Fool's) on YouTube was used by a TV Newscast as fact, which was posted on YouTube by an amused (that the News fell for it) Improv Everywhere group. You with me so far?

The news folks sent a copyright infringement notice to YouTube about the video of them airing the video about the fake video. Or as the producers of the video put it:

"What's more interesting is the fact that their original broadcast used our content without permission. They simply put "YOUTUBE" on the screen to indicate that's where they found the video. So it's OK for them to air content that we shot and own, but it's not OK for me to upload their footage of the content they took from me? 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?"

So since my blog post mentions another blog mentioning this story, my blog post is an example of fair use of a fair use of a fair use of a fair use.......

Thanks to boingboing.