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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They’ll all be gone. Total information blackout! Look what Hitler did!
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.
3:30 CDT, FNC!!!
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.
RE: your picture in #15. You got that right. We may be there.
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.
We’re at least waaaay too close for comfort.
Getting ready for the day when Rush moves the “Southern Command” to Bermuda, huh?
Ahh geez.. that is my worst nightmare.
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.
As it is for all of us.
LoL! Maybe I should invest in a memeograph machine also.
McCain camp needs to post at Live Leak as well
The Obama Thugocracy Cometh ping...
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.
That blue developer fluid is probably a controlled substance by now.
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