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Newest YouTube User To Fight a Takedown: Lawrence Lessig

Posted by timothy on from the one-hand-tied-behind-his-back dept.

onehitwonder writes "Lawrence Lessig has teamed with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to sue Liberation Music, which recently demanded that YouTube take down a lecture Lessig had posted that features clips from the song 'Lisztomania' by the French band Phoenix (on Liberation Music's label). Liberation claimed copyright infringement as the reason it demanded the takedown, but in his countersuit, Lessig is claiming Liberation's 'overly aggressive takedown violates the DMCA and that it should be made to pay damages,' according to Ars Technica."

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  1. tldr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lawrence Lessig laments Liberation's 'Lisztomania' limitations. Litigation likely.

  2. My take on where we are so far by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    When a li'l old professor made fair use of a small clip of a band's music, maybe giving them free PR in the process, the band's label turned into Big, Bad Bullies and slapped a Big, Legalistic Testosterone-Fueled DMCA Notice to said professor.

    Well. It so happens, that the l'il old professor is an expert in Internet Copyright Law at Harvard Law School. And according to his complaint:

    17. Professor Lessig has been named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries

    So, said professor turned into a Big, Bad Bully and slapped a Big, Legalistic Testosterone-Fueled Civil Complaint Seeking Damages against the band's record label.

    Remember... we're the good guys here!