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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

"Fair Use? Who Cares?"

Remember Universal's controversial takedown notice of a YouTube video from last year featuring a baby dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy"? When the takedown notice was challenged, Universal didn't argue with the assertion that the video was a "fair use" of Prince's song , and the video went back online. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a Digital Freedom Campaign Partner, is representing the victim and is asking a District Judge to exercise a clause in the DMCA which allows victims of meritless takedown notices to seek damages and award the victim attorneys' fees and other monetary damages. Universal is arguing that DMCA takedown notices can ignore Fair Use, as detailed in a great WIRED article from last Thursday (A major label looking to ignore Fair Use? You don't say!). The judge has not indicated when he would rule, but did say that this case was a "very important issue of statutory interpretation." We couldn't agree more...

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