More DMCA Censorship at Yahoo!

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 6, 2008 @05:28PM from the do-they-call-it-censorship!-there dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Once again a Yahoo! user has found themselves on the short end of the DMCA stick. Video blogger Loren Feldman recently found that his video mocking (read parody) the Village People and blogger Shel Israel was removed from the Yahoo! service after Scorpio Music served Yahoo! with a DMCA takedown notice. The video in question contained a very brief fair use parody snippet of the Village People song YMCA as performed by a puppet. What's more, Yahoo! threatened Feldman with the termination of all of his Yahoo! services including the revocation of his Yahoo ID."

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Not taking a joke by awdau · 2008-04-06 17:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

And here I was thinking that the village people (with the songs they sung), would take a joke, specially considering a puppet is involved.

I hope they are not going to sue the puppet, though that would be interesting.

The world really is becoming a sad and sorry place :(