Unlike this YouTube video which plays the entire 10 minute Tubby the Tuba Puppetoon Short (God help you if you watch it), my Tubby the Tuba re-edit has been removed from YouTube “due to copyright violations” by “Arnold Leibovit Entertainment.” Even though I have to expect this kind of thing, the claim is, of course, is bullshit.  I’ve never broken a law in my life.

My Tubby Tuba video use falls under Fair Use laws, and any first year Broadcasting Major from Rats Ass Community College can tell you that. But the video in my post still works if you go there…even though it doesn’t work at YouTube Proper anymore. Weird. But I’ll leave it alone for now. Because YouTube shoots first and asks questions later (removes your video and then makes you prove why it shouldn’t have through a lengthy and boring pissing-match with the so-called copyright holder of my 30 second parody-law protected goof video), I’ll just have to set a precedent with Chris Ward v. Tubby Tuba.

Also, MTV recently contacted me to air my crazy-successful Jesus Blows Up the Earth video (kids love the Jesus) for a new show they’re putting out in May where they…I’m not sure. Put other people’s YouTube videos on TV? Anyway, and I was happy to oblige until I saw their contract would have me claiming I owned 100% of that video. I don’t know why MTV assumed I owned the video, since it’s one of several online. Seems kind of reckless of them, considering it would have been my ass if someone like, oh, Jesus’ Evil World Destroying Lawyers came calling. And, for the record, our foremost animation expert Jerry Beck has “no idea” where Jesus Blows Up The Earth originally came from.  The fact that he doesn’t know, actually kind of scares me a little bit. Now I’ll have to assume that cartoon has always been, and always will be: the Alpha and Omega of shitty propaganda cartoons.