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Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal

Posted by Zonk on from the they-thought-of-the-children dept.

penguin_dance writes "A Pennsylvania mom is fighting back, suing Universal Music Publishing Group for having a home movie taken down off of YouTube. The movie, featuring her 18-month old bouncing to Prince's song, 'Let's Go Crazy,' was cited for removal by the Group for copyright infringement. Mom Stephanie Lenz was first afraid they'd come after her — then she got angry. She got YouTube to put the video back up, she's enlisted the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and she's filed a civil lawsuit (pdf). 'I thought even though I didn't do anything wrong that they might want to file some kind of suit against me, take my house, come after me. And I didn't like feeling afraid ... I didn't like feeling that I could get in trouble for something as simple as posting a home video for my friends and family to see.'"

6 of 391 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I know Prince is a scary guy, but this .... by SetupWeasel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We are talking about a man who became a Jehovah's Witness.

    I'm surprised that he learned to use a mouse.

  2. Still a copyright infringement by Gabest · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you are blind.

  3. Re:I know Prince is a scary guy, but this .... by trolltalk.com · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > "I doubt it was Prince himself doing the searching."

    I quoted the article, where it was confirmed that Prince himself was the one who was "scouring the internet" and found this particular video. Do you think that anyone else would be such a freak over it, even if it was their job?

    I hear you about the scientologists (hey - its nice to be able to rag on scientology on slashdot again, since the "great comment deletion scandal" :-)

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  4. Re:I know Prince is a scary guy, but this .... by Verte · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps you are thinking of Mormons. My family are Jehovah's Witnesses, they don't have any problem with technology. [But yes, Prince is a Jehovah's Witness.]

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  5. Re:Tag goodforher ! by Gigaflynn · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    this is the most stupid case I've ever seen, ok they shouldn't take the video down, but now she's sueing them because they DIDNT sue her?

    do these people have nothing better to do?

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  6. Poor kid... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think there should be a law against posting pictures of your children on the internet. There's no way an 18 month old kid could consent to that - that's way too young to be able to grasp all the implications. Although she (the mom that is) probably didn't ask in the first place. Anyway, it's just wrong. Also, you just know someone on 4chan is sufficiently fucked in the head to fap to it. Just think about it.