Bogus DMCA Takedown Knocks Out Yet Another Political Ad
from the politcal-speech dept
We were just discussing how the DMCA interferes with political speech, and the EFF brings up another example. Apparently, John Kasich, who's running for governor in Ohio, put out a commercial that purported to show a local steelworker talking about how unhappy he was with the current governor, Ted Strickland. Strickland's campaign folks apparently realized that the "steelworker" was really an actor, and put together the following video, mixing in clips of some of the actor's other work:What's troubling, yet again, is that this form of political speech has been removed from YouTube in the heat of an election battle. Even if the takedown was not political, it's clearly a case of copyright law being used to stifle political speech. The EFF asks Arginate to withdraw the takedown and asks YouTube to put the video back up (without waiting for the whole 10 to 14 day period in the DMCA).
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Filed Under: dmca, john kasich, ohio, politics, speech, takedowns, ted strickland
Companies: arginate studios
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There has to be a penalty
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Damn. Missed Opportunity
They couldn't have explained the situation better? Teed up the videos with an intro? And the steelworker at the end is incomprehensible - I can't tell what he's angry about. The edits chop around faster than an MTV video. I'm not sure that's the main voting bloc they're trying to influence.
Could have been a great "Gotcha!", but instead was a tepid "Wha?"
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Re: Damn. Missed Opportunity
that response was fucking awesome.
I cant imagine how they could have done it better.
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One Day, DMCA will be used to silence the Gospel
One day, DMCA will be used to silence the Christian faith.
ISOPHS, Ltd. a cyberterrorist organization, filed false DMCA against NintendoCapriSun and Chuggaconroy's "Let's Play" videos, causing them to be banned. Conjopi, the leader of the cyberterrorist organization, claimed that he owns Chugga's voice. This is insane. How can you copyright someone's voice?
If I, for example, copyrighted someone's voice and I filed a DMCA against him/her saying he/she cannot use his/her voice which I own, I would force him/her to have his/her voice box (larynx) surgically removed at the hospital and hand it over to me. Sounds ridiculous, right?
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A preview of COICA
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Horsecrap
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Now that would almost be worth the collateral damage...
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