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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. Stupid comment... by Arkh89 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    (Rhetorical question ahead)
    Why do we never hear what the artists, the ones who actually made the song or tune, have to say about this "infringements"?

    1. Re:Stupid comment... by LordLimecat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Sure they do, and they used "their say" to sign a contract.

      Luckily we live in a society where contracts are taken seriously.

    2. Re:Stupid comment... by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Unless the contract ends up hurting a corporation, and then they just really get thrown out. Ask people who have lost their pensions.

      Seriously... anyone that doesn't understand the practicality of this is being a corporate sycophant. The way that the legal and legislative system is right now corporations wield a HUGE amount of power.

    3. Re:Stupid comment... by dk20 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Its a really bad and lopsided relationship which hopefully comes to an end in my lifetime, but i'm not optimistic this will happen. Too many players and too much money at stake. "artists" which cant write a song, cant play an instrument, and cant read sheet music.. just pretty faces and autotune earning boatloads of money....

    4. Re:Stupid comment... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      They did the work "for hire" and don't own the rights, the labels do.

      In that case, "intellectual property" doesn't mean a whole lot because the intellect from which the work came into being is no longer a party to the property.

      It's a truly twisted system, being abused by some very powerful people, who didn't create a goddamn thing.

      I don't think that was the original purpose of copyright.

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    5. Re:Stupid comment... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You're looking in the wrong places. There are lots of real musicians out there, but they're not multi-millionaires (and why should they be?) and their music isn't played on commercial radio stations or popular tv shows. You'll have to go watch them in a small venue like we used to before there was a music industry.

  2. Oh boy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Oh boy! I can't wait for Lessig to lose this case too, thereby setting a precedent that even further increases copyright holder's powers over "their" works!

  3. Re:My take on where we are so far by dmbasso · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, said professor turned into a Big, Bad Bully

    Wrong. Standing up against a bully doesn't turn you into one.

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