Praise Night Emcee Intro from Remnant Westside on Vimeo.

So I was browsing the Remnant Westside Church media page to see if the media team has uploaded the senior video yet and what I found instead was a bit disturbing.

It turns out that the video entitled “Praise Night Emcee Intro” features Ryan Cashman’s “Light-Paint Piano Player” almost in its entirety without any sort of credit going back to Ryan whatsoever. What’s even more puzzling to me is that the media team chose this video to draw their overlays on when the original video has been viewed nearly 300,000 times by people on the internet. Did they not think that somebody would notice? How could I be the only one to notice this in a congregation that fills nearly an entire school auditorium?

Seeing this video today really shocked me and I think it shows poor judgment on the media team as a whole (not to mention that it reflects poorly on the church as well). There are so many talented people at RWC that could have created something just as wonderful as Ryan’s video, and I’m having a hard time figuring out why they decided it was alright to blatantly steal another person’s work. Let’s try and stop this sort of thing, yeah? Start giving credit where credit is due.

Light-Paint Piano Player from Ryan Cashman on Vimeo.

UPDATE: Esther Lee says she worked on the original video with Ryan. But Ryan does not know that the video was used by RWC. My original point still stands. THERE WAS NO CREDIT GIVEN to the original content creator. Working on something doesn’t give you ownership of it.