EFF To Ask Judge To Rule That Universal Abused the DMCA

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 12, 2012 @02:51AM from the lesson-in-responsibility dept.

xSander writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal judge in San Jose, CA to rule that Universal abused the DMCA to take down a video of a toddler dancing to a Prince song. The case in question, whose oral argument will be Tuesday, October 16, is Stephanie Lenz vs. Universal, a case that began back in 2007. Lenz shared a video on YouTube of her son dancing to 'Let's Go Crazy' on a stereo in the background. After Universal took the video down, Lenz filed a suit with help of the EFF to hold Universal accountable for taking down her fair use. The court had already decided that content owners must consider fair use before sending copyright takedown notices."

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Who Owns Your Memories? by srobert · 2012-10-12 03:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Universal?. Hmm. Most all of my childhood memories are owned by Disney and Time-Warner.
Re:I'd like to see more of this by ender8282 · 2012-10-12 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Oooh, Oooh how about 3 strikes. The media companies love it so much; what if they got 3 strikes? If they issue 3 DMCA take down requests that get overturned as failing to consider fair use, they loose the right to issue take down requests.

I predict that a fraction of a second after such a law took affect most companies' bots would issue bad requests. A few months later the courts would rule that 3 of them were in valid, and all of big name rights owners would loose the right to issue take down notices. Then the word becomes a better place and I can watch the Curiosity landing!