Comments on: MTN, Jupiter Drawing Room And YouTube

By: Francois

Francois — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:04:48 +0000

Here’s the thing that gets me. If you are an artist or performer you know the hours you invest into creating something amazing like this video. It took MTN or Jupiter about what 5 minutes to download the video and then edit the mtn scam the future logo at the end of it?

MTN in my opinion just lost every artists business forever, I don’t care if they are the last network provider company on earth I’d rather send smoke signals.

I can only try and communicate this to other by saying this, imagine you worked a whole month and someone else gets your paycheck? How would you feel ? In this case MTN obviously paid Jupiter to make an add, Jupiter said heck wait, download a video slap some mtn logos on and viola easy money.

By: Agent C

Agent C — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:53:32 +0000

I agree with Jason the problem is that no credit is given to the real creators, and the movies really are taken verbatim from Youtube. Anybody could grab a .flv file and put Vodacom’s tag on it.. it would be better than that damn meerkat.

Here I am searching for creative commons music to use in anything public I do, and these guys don’t give a damn. Theres a question for you. On Youtube, since it isn’t for commercial use, you can use any artists music. Although sometimes the tube catches you out and won’t let you submit (it does have plagiarism filters.) But then you take that video and put it on TV, what about the artist who made the backing music?

By: Dominique

Dominique — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:50:31 +0000

I dunno, i think the real culprits here are the ‘creatives’ at Jupiter. They’ve managed to do some blatant copying and earned quite a buck in the process. If I were them I’d chalk these ads up to ‘we had nothing else’ instead of ‘we’re so frikkin creative and brilliant’

I find it funny that nobody from that camp have commented on this? They can’t tell me they haven’t found these posts in the blogosphere. They found youtube afterall…

By: Cherryflava

Cherryflava — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:42:18 +0000

The difference is that the blog world credits the original source and doesn’t try pass un-original content as their own.

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:49:01 +0000

Mike, the other issue here is that Jupiter didn’t copy – they used the videos verbatim. Maybe money exchanged hands I have no idea and that’s why I wanted clarity.

All I know is that it would have been better had they got African’s to create some content instead of picking the top YouTube videos but that’s just me.

By: Karen Lotter

Karen Lotter — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:43:26 +0000

Mike there’s a big difference between the business world – MTN and Jupiter Drawing Room – and the blogosphere. Money!

And if I’m not mistaken, Jupiter pride themselves on being one of the top creative agencies in the country?

I know everyone says that almost nothing is entirely original. But to blatantly copy stuff – then rationalize it and not give any credit or money to the people who proved that original ideas ARE possible is not right.

No matter how entertaining the ads are.