Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 26, 2007 @03:48PM 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.'"

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Punk redefined? by Scutter · 2007-10-26 16:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FTA: "But he's getting a little bit more into punk now, so I'm trying to turn him on to Nirvana."

So, Nirvana is punk now? I must have missed the memo.

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