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McCain protests YouTube's removal of his campaign videos
Computerworld ^ | 10/15/2008 | Heather Havenstein

Posted on 10/15/2008 2:04:29 PM PDT by Mannaggia l'America

Republican presidential candidate John McCain is accusing YouTube LLC of acting too quickly to comply with copyright infringement notices by yanking his campaign videos.

McCain's campaign sent a letter Monday to YouTube parent company Google Inc., protesting YouTube's removal of unnamed videos from the site after receiving take-down notices claiming copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The McCain camp goes on to suggest that YouTube set up a special process for reviewing the legal merit of take-down requests for YouTube accounts associated with candidates or their campaigns.

The letter asserts that numerous times during the campaign, YouTube removed videos that do not violate the DMCA, but instead are examples of fair use of material because the videos included less than 10 seconds of footage from news broadcasts. The use of material from news broadcasts is protected as fair use under the DMCA, McCain's letter claims, because the videos are noncommercial uses of the material, the material is factual and brief, and the videos don't affect the market for the allegedly infringed material.

"Overreaching copyright claims have resulted in the removal of noninfringing campaign videos from YouTube, thus silencing political speech," according to the letter.

Despite the "complete lack of merit in these copyright claims," YouTube has removed McCain's campaign videos immediately upon receipt of the take-down notices, the letter goes on to note.

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KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; mccain; youtube
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I bet the 0bamassiah's videos haven't been touched...
1 posted on 10/15/2008 2:04:30 PM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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To: Mannaggia l'America

Everyone knows that Googles in the bag for Barry so I’m surprised they last as long as they do!


2 posted on 10/15/2008 2:06:38 PM PDT by Devilinbaggypants (Audaces fortuna iuvat.)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

The big “O” has already started on information sequestering. Obama just said Fox News has cost him 3 points in the election. Be afraid, be very afraid!


3 posted on 10/15/2008 2:06:48 PM PDT by RobertoinAL
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To: Devilinbaggypants

Media media on the wall who has the power over us all...


4 posted on 10/15/2008 2:08:06 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: RobertoinAL

***Obama just said Fox News has cost him 3 points in the election.***

Where’d you hear that?


5 posted on 10/15/2008 2:08:49 PM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle (Country first!)
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To: RobertoinAL

Fox news will be a target of obamas so will talk radio
then certain media will be told not to air certain things

the media had better wake up to what they are trying to get elected other wise theyll be out of a job soon.

we all know google is liberal so isn’t there any other engines out there which are more non partisan or bias?


6 posted on 10/15/2008 2:09:04 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: RobertoinAL

Fox may have cost him 3 pts. but the msm gave him all the pts. he has got.


7 posted on 10/15/2008 2:09:17 PM PDT by tioga
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To: StarCMC

McCain’s vids disappear and we still have the horrendous Nick Berg vid up.

Go figure.


8 posted on 10/15/2008 2:10:40 PM PDT by netmilsmom ( Obama And Osama both have friends who bombed the Pentagon)
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To: RobertoinAL

“Obama just said Fox News has cost him 3 points in the election.”

And the kneepadders at NBC/CNN/ABC/MSNBC/CBS, etc have given him at least 15-20 points.


9 posted on 10/15/2008 2:11:48 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Mannaggia l'America

Geez, maybe you shouldn’t have voted for the horrendous DMCA, John....


10 posted on 10/15/2008 2:11:49 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

And so it begins. God help us.


11 posted on 10/15/2008 2:12:06 PM PDT by Hanna548
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To: RobertoinAL
"The big “O” has already started on information sequestering. Obama just said Fox News has cost him 3 points in the election. Be afraid, be very afraid!"

Preparing my shortwave radio to be able to continue to listen to Rush when he has to move offshore.

I'm not sure what Obama will do to Internet sites like this [forums] or NRO, American Thinker, WND [news] et.al....

12 posted on 10/15/2008 2:12:14 PM PDT by KriegerGeist (I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

Hussiens goon squads will be watching and reporting....The Secret Service will be working alot of over time in the next four years...


13 posted on 10/15/2008 2:12:18 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Just Say NObama!)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

I went looking for my congressman’s campaign ads the other day and found nothing but attack ads against him. Many of them are his own ads edited by libtards to turn them into attack ads against him.


14 posted on 10/15/2008 2:12:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: RobertoinAL
Stop worrying.

There will be other things to watch....24/7.


15 posted on 10/15/2008 2:12:29 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult is the soundtrack to the Revolution.)
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To: Mannaggia l'America
The McCain camp goes on to suggest that YouTube set up a special process for reviewing the legal merit of take-down requests for YouTube accounts associated with candidates or their campaigns.

Why? Don't politicians have enough special privleges already?

16 posted on 10/15/2008 2:13:02 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

Maybe McCain should act like a “new Republican” and just seize people’s intellectual property citing eminent domain.

Asking permission or paying licensing fees is just so “old Republican.”


17 posted on 10/15/2008 2:13:36 PM PDT by Mr. Know It All (Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem)
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To: mrs tiggywinkle

Cavuto was talking about it on his show. It’s from a New York Times interview with Obama that is supposed to come out soon (I didn’t hear when exactly, I assume tomorrow).


18 posted on 10/15/2008 2:13:49 PM PDT by retrokitten (I don't know you! That's my purse! - Bobby Hill)
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To: mrs tiggywinkle

On Neil Cavuto’s show, Fox News


19 posted on 10/15/2008 2:14:01 PM PDT by RobertoinAL
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To: Mannaggia l'America

Gee whiz. DMCA and CFR are things Johnny loved in the past.


20 posted on 10/15/2008 2:14:21 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Geist Krieger

They’ll all be gone. Total information blackout! Look what Hitler did!


21 posted on 10/15/2008 2:15:43 PM PDT by RobertoinAL
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To: All


Videos - Series: "NEVER FIND OUT"

COMPUTER WORLD.com: "UPDATE: McCAIN PROTESTS YouTube's REMOVAL OF HIS CAMPAIGN VIDEOS" by Heather Havenstein (October 15, 2008)



[Post no. 10] - ARCHIVES - Topic: BIDEN & OBAMA (aka B & O) (October 15, 2008 -- Click Here.)

JEFF HEAD.com - Videos: "THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - Obama In His & His Supporters Own Words"

22 posted on 10/15/2008 2:18:48 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Mannaggia l'America
I bet the 0bamassiah's videos haven't been touched...

That is because YOU people are NOT taking the time to flag 0bomba's 1562 videos for any number of reasons that youtube allows.
23 posted on 10/15/2008 2:18:57 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Mannaggia l'America
Ooooooh! McCain wrote a LETTER!

I bet the liberal HACKS at Google/You Tube are shakin' in their clogs.
24 posted on 10/15/2008 2:19:16 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (A vote for Hussein is insane!)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

A couple of years ago I read that Algore had millions in shares in Google—that explains the bias. It seems Obama dominates lots on the internet. You have to go through at least a page of Obama crap to get to what you want when doing a search.


25 posted on 10/15/2008 2:19:22 PM PDT by nclaurel (No white flags from America in Iraq--hear that Biden!)
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To: mrs tiggywinkle

3:30 CDT, FNC!!!


26 posted on 10/15/2008 2:21:06 PM PDT by dusttoyou (First they steal our savings, then our liberty)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

Google better watch out or they are going to have a free speech suit filed against them.

Several articles about the truth of Obama’s stand on abortion have also been removed.


27 posted on 10/15/2008 2:23:33 PM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: RobertoinAL

28 posted on 10/15/2008 2:29:18 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult is the soundtrack to the Revolution.)
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To: Salamander

RE: your picture in #15. You got that right. We may be there.


29 posted on 10/15/2008 2:38:16 PM PDT by Prince Caspian
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To: Geist Krieger
Preparing my shortwave radio to be able to continue to listen to Rush when he has to move offshore.

I have had a couple of Single Side Band radios that I have wanted to sell. I think I will just hold on to them for the future.

30 posted on 10/15/2008 2:47:10 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Prince Caspian

We’re at least waaaay too close for comfort.


31 posted on 10/15/2008 2:48:52 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult is the soundtrack to the Revolution.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Getting ready for the day when Rush moves the “Southern Command” to Bermuda, huh?


32 posted on 10/15/2008 2:54:51 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Salamander

Ahh geez.. that is my worst nightmare.


33 posted on 10/15/2008 2:55:35 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Mannaggia l'America

Google pnnl. have given approx. $400,000 to Barack Obama.

It’s part of the witchcraft media, trying to strangle the truth and poison people’s minds.


34 posted on 10/15/2008 2:56:37 PM PDT by unspun (Pray and Work! http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org -)
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To: Irish Eyes

As it is for all of us.


35 posted on 10/15/2008 2:58:51 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult is the soundtrack to the Revolution.)
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To: Tallguy

LoL! Maybe I should invest in a memeograph machine also.


36 posted on 10/15/2008 3:02:32 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

McCain camp needs to post at Live Leak as well


37 posted on 10/15/2008 3:06:32 PM PDT by zimfam007 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...

The Obama Thugocracy Cometh ping...


38 posted on 10/15/2008 3:08:42 PM PDT by nutmeg (Obama and Osama: Both have friends who have bombed the Pentagon)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

So, if someone were to create an account and post McCain’s videos, would McCain get in trouble for it?

The jihadists create multiple accounts and when one of theirs is taken down, they just post is again under another account.


39 posted on 10/15/2008 3:17:18 PM PDT by moonpie57 (Fred Howell McMurray, Jr. The man on my POW bracelet.)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Maybe I should invest in a memeograph machine also.

That blue developer fluid is probably a controlled substance by now.

40 posted on 10/15/2008 3:21:05 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Tallguy

Yes! I do remember the test papers my teachers would hand out. I always wondered why I did poorly on those tests!


41 posted on 10/15/2008 3:28:24 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

Why did McCain stupidly use FoxNews footage again? It’s a great ad and they screwed it up. why do they need Eric Shawn’s voice? Just use your own faux newser with a map. Dumb.


42 posted on 10/15/2008 3:29:48 PM PDT by montag813
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To: mrs tiggywinkle

That info was on Cavuto’s this afternoon. I take it that it was a message to Fox that unless they comply and protect Barry, if he is elected, they are in trouble.


43 posted on 10/15/2008 3:32:03 PM PDT by indylindy (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

anywhere we can protest? our ISP just went with gmail and I hate supporting google if they are liberal. I think we need to begin to protest where it hurts. The pocketbook.
Polly


44 posted on 10/15/2008 3:33:16 PM PDT by pollywog (I will lift mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord...Ps 121)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

This is normal. I have authority over my clients’ videos, and when I complain to Google about copyright infringement they immediately take down the offending material.


45 posted on 10/15/2008 3:36:14 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Bill Maher: President Obama's press Secretary.)
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To: Salamander

Scary sh1t,

I hate that guy with a passion.

I WILL NEVER BOW DOWN TO FASCISM!

ANY OF YOU BOOBAMA A-HOLES OUT THERE EAVESDROPPING, GO f*** YOURSELF!


46 posted on 10/15/2008 3:43:47 PM PDT by Canedawg (Over? OVER? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!)
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To: indylindy

This will not stand!!


47 posted on 10/15/2008 3:45:39 PM PDT by Osage Orange (" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: pollywog

No, because you can’t even get the creeps in the GOP to stand up for you.

What does that tell you?


48 posted on 10/15/2008 3:48:19 PM PDT by indylindy (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: manc

Fox is already keeling over to Obama, he has good help even, from the GOP.


49 posted on 10/15/2008 3:49:20 PM PDT by indylindy (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: nutmeg

McCain can start his own youtube type media player. Meanwhile, Obama’s taking a beating at youtube with all of his communist-terrorist globalist ties.


50 posted on 10/15/2008 3:52:08 PM PDT by floriduh voter (ODINGA, YOU HAVE MAIL FROM YOUR AMERICAN COUNTERPART!)
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