So some guy made a timelapse video of clouds outside his apartment and released it online free of copyright for everyone to use.  An anonymous individual used this timelapse video in his/her “Message to Scientology” video back in January that kicked off the monthly protests that exist now until Scientology is gone.  Parodies resulted, one of them being a bad one from 236.com that uses the same cloud footage.

236, according to Google, is now claiming copyright ownership of the cloud video.

Sure enough, Arianna Huffington’s comedy news site 236.com had posted a derivative parody to YouTube: “A Message to Rudy Giuliani,” which amusingly deviates somewhat from the standard “Message from Anonymous” pattern by pausing part way through while Anonymous fends off his mom. There’s the standard synthesized speech, the standard message from Anonymous, and of course, my cloud timelapse video — which now, I gather from the phrasing of the Googly copyright notice email, 236.com is now claiming to have copyright on.

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