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McCain and Palin latest DMCA take-down victims
Happens to everyone
US PRESIDENTIAL hopeful John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin are getting treated to a lesson about how the DMCA is being used to make criminals out of ordinary people.
Yesterday their campaign HQ penned an angry letter to Youtube complaining about rights holders, especially news organisations, that filed illegitimate DMCA takedown notices and managed to have important campaign clips pulled at crucial times
The letter said that the online campaign was being hamstrung by " overreaching copyright claims".
Some news organisations which wanted the clips taken off are probably in the wrong because they contained "fewer than ten seconds of footage from news broadcasts in campaign ads or videos, as a basis for commentary on the issues presented in the news reports."
The McCain/Palin campaign said that these clips were fair use but they were pulled anyway as per Youtube's policy.
While the campaign can file a counternotice this all takes time and having crucial attack videos down for days at a time is apparently hurting the campaign.
McCain has called for Youtube to get proactive in these cases and do a manual review.
But it is somewhat amusing that US politicians bend over and do what rabid backers of DMCA takedown notices, such as the music and film industry, tell them to do. For years US politicians have watched as mothers filming their toddlers have been subjected to DMCA notices and they have done sod all. However once they are on the receiving end of their own subservience and their campaigns are threatened they don't like it and start screaming about fair use.
Ah the irony, the irony!
I have to wonder if McCain will even understand this, given his ignorance of computers.
McCain and Palin latest DMCA take-down victims
Happens to everyone
US PRESIDENTIAL hopeful John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin are getting treated to a lesson about how the DMCA is being used to make criminals out of ordinary people.
Yesterday their campaign HQ penned an angry letter to Youtube complaining about rights holders, especially news organisations, that filed illegitimate DMCA takedown notices and managed to have important campaign clips pulled at crucial times
The letter said that the online campaign was being hamstrung by " overreaching copyright claims".
Some news organisations which wanted the clips taken off are probably in the wrong because they contained "fewer than ten seconds of footage from news broadcasts in campaign ads or videos, as a basis for commentary on the issues presented in the news reports."
The McCain/Palin campaign said that these clips were fair use but they were pulled anyway as per Youtube's policy.
While the campaign can file a counternotice this all takes time and having crucial attack videos down for days at a time is apparently hurting the campaign.
McCain has called for Youtube to get proactive in these cases and do a manual review.
But it is somewhat amusing that US politicians bend over and do what rabid backers of DMCA takedown notices, such as the music and film industry, tell them to do. For years US politicians have watched as mothers filming their toddlers have been subjected to DMCA notices and they have done sod all. However once they are on the receiving end of their own subservience and their campaigns are threatened they don't like it and start screaming about fair use.
Ah the irony, the irony!
I have to wonder if McCain will even understand this, given his ignorance of computers.
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