Posted on 07/02/2008 9:34:02 AM PDT by boo-boo kitty
GOOGLE REMOVES ATLAS HAGEE VIDEOS
As bloggers continue to slog through increasing regulation, scrutiny and in some cases deletion (here) I received this from google (big brother, busy suspending anti-Obama blogs).
Youtube removed my Hagee video(s)( three 9 minute videos of of the his AIPAC speech - that great inspiring speech from AIPAC 2007. They cited copyright infringement. Whose? There were 6,000 people there.
And it was such a great speech. "Israel you are not alone" listen to it here. (You know Atlas is always one step ahead :) Download JohnHageeAIPACSpeech-all-20min.mp3 (I love Hagee, what a friend Israel has. My only regret is that no one will be able to see that wonderful speech.)
Oh and they said - any other infringement and they will delete my account and all of my videos. I am beyond caring at this point
(Excerpt) Read more at atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com ...
Be afraid.
BUMP! BUMP!
So the question is: was there a copyright violation? The author adroitly skirts that little issue. I strongly suspect that there is a copyright on the videos in question, or their content.
Google is just using its power to further leftist causes. No surprise there.
Yes...re the Hagee videos. I’m finding out more about them.
Someone just responded that he had to remove a Hagee post.
JHM (John Hagee Ministries) directed all copyrighted content be removed. HOWEVER: YouTube went overboard and removed much more...including Atlas’ filming at AIPAC. The “over tenacity” that YouTube committed should be corrected.
It doesn’t seem to be a very good system. Anyone can claim to be an official and then the censorship has legs? That means CAIR can claim something that isn’t true and YouTube goes ahead and shuts down a post or a whole account! Re: MotionBox - There was NO good reason for the MotionBox harassment of Atlas. There was no good reason to censor my personal ISA videos that I had posted. ISA videos had to have someone complaining.... Yes, the internet community is still trying to figure out how to work all this out.BUT,in the meantime, certain “people” have and are using it to their advantage.
I think that’s how DMCA takedown notices work though—the copyright holder (which would be Hagee Ministries in the case of that speech) can pretty much go straight to Google and say “hey, we don’t want our stuff up there” and Google will yoink it.
Now why your personal videos of protests would get taken down? I have no idea. That’s YOUR video, with YOUR ownership. If the video doesn’t contain copyrighted content, I don’t see what would cause them to take it down unless, as you said, they knuckled under to somebody like CAIR.
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I don’t think Lefties trying to shut down conservative blogs is a new thing. This forum was created because Yahoo kept kicking Jim Robinson off for being conservative.
Hagee for President!
It's probably just like the restrictions announced before every NFL telecast. I'm betting that the AIPAC proceedings may be subject to copyright restrictions on reproduction and distribution.
It may be that Google is doing censorship; more likely, they're just trying to do the same thing FR does, with regard to restricted sources.
Given Google’s history, I think you’re being far too charitable.
The Republicans support the DMCA. They have unleashed the hounds upon their political base. And the Republican establishment is gleeful to have contrary voices removed from the public arena. They were bought off by Hollywood, and were already willing conspirators towards clamping down on Fair Use doctrine.
Copyright does not exist until a work has been rendered into tangible form. Something like a play exists in tangible form before it is performed, and thus taping a performance would violate the copyright of the pre-existing work. An audience recording of a completely improvised performance, however, would not seem to violate copyright since the work didn't exist before it was recorded.
There was no copyright infringement. It was a speech given in front of six thousand people and broadcast on CPAN well over a year ago.
It was also a Hagee video that got upwards of 75,000 hits (and that was the last time I months ago).
It was unabashedly pro-Israel, pro- America, anti-Ahmadinejad and spoke passionately of Christians united for Israel.
The Yahoo thing wasn’t about copyright infringement, either. They didn’t want their board messed up with conservative opinion.
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