Comments on: American Cancer Society Lifts Video Content Without Attribution

By: American Cancer Society Video Follow Up » Patrick O’Keefe

American Cancer Society Video Follow Up » Patrick O’Keefe — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:37:38 +0000

[...] a follow up to yesterday’s post about the American Cancer Society taking a little too much liberty with someone else’s work, [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:36:36 +0000

Dear Mr. Neff,

Thank you for commenting. I appreciate what you’ve done. I will have a follow up post shortly.

Thanks,

Patrick

By: David J. Neff

David J. Neff — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:54:05 +0000

Hey All,
This is David J. Neff and I work over at the American Cancer Society. I would like to apologize to Lee and let you all know we will be taking the video down for some re-tooling. (Is that a word?) We went in today and changed the CC as well as giving credit to Lee and his peeps over at Common Craft, but have still chosen to take it off the site for now. I also emailed Lee this weekend about this very subject. Hopefully you will check out the site more (SharingHope.TV) and see what other uses for community we are doing, when it comes to helping people with cancer. Sorry I missed you all at SXSW as I presented as well.

Thanks,
David

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:19:41 +0000

Definitely, Lee. No problem.

Patrick

By: Lee LeFever

Lee LeFever — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:58:28 +0000

Thanks for the post, Patrick. I did have a conversation with one of the American Cancer Society folks at SX and, if I remember correctly, he mentioned a video they had done - but I didn’t see it at the time. I would have loved it if they did a similar video, but created their own version with their own script. We see these often and have no problem with them, or any reason to have a problem. However, I agree that taking direct quotes and not providing attribution is a bit much.