Update: McCain protests YouTube's removal of his campaign videos - Computerworld mag

[steve2470]

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9117240

October 15, 2008 (Computerworld) 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.

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McSame's campaign is pathetic, truly.

[ericgtr]

1. The Republican way - Do as we say, we are above all laws

Fucking Stalinists.

[Oak2004]

2. Well, he's right, it's just that you can bet he'll be all supportive of google taking progressive

videos down for fake DMCA complaints.

Rights are for Republicans. All others can go fuck themselves.