You remember our successful battle against Universal Music Group? The record industry giant tried to abuse copyright law to yank a video we put on YouTube criticizing Akon. With the help of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, we asserted fair use, beat back the bogus legal threat, and had the video restored.
Well, UMG is at it again. This time, they’re targeting a mom for posting an innocent little YouTube video clip of her cute kids dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy.”
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Are the lawyers and p.r. people at UMG missing synapses or what? If they were smart, they’d be promoting this cute baby video, not trying to stifle it. Geez.
The link has the video.
I don’t know about Michelle Malkin, but the prevailing opinion among “mainstream” conservatives, with all their anti-Napster, anti-file sharing rhetoric of the recent past, has de facto endorsed copyright extremist bully tactics like these.
