Flutterby™! : VIACOM filing false copyright claims

Joanna Davidovich made a short film she called "Juxtaposer" and uploaded it to YouTube. Then Viacom made a fraudulent copyright takedown notice against her film. The comments on the original weblog entry, Viacom Wants To Steal My Film, indicate that this isn't a one-time event. Via MeFi.

I'm a big supporter of copyright. I think creators should be able to maintain the rights to their films in pretty much anyway they wish. But I also think that this sort of legal misconduct, especially when it's widespread and institutionalized, needs to carry some super heavy smackdown. I think it'd be perfectly reasonable that the person who instituted this fraudulent claim served the same sorts of jail time that any other hardcore copyright infringer is faced with.