Saturday, June 12, 2010
Unbelievable dhimmitude on the part of YouTube, and not the first time: YouTube silences Latma, removes We Con the World
As Israel went offline for the Jewish sabbath, YouTube removed most versions of Latma's hit parody song We Con the World. If you try to access the song on YouTube you receive the notification:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner/ Chappell Music, Inc. .
Copyright experts we advised with before posting the song told us in no uncertain terms that we were within our rights to use the song because we did so in accordance with the Fair Use Doctrine. The Fair Use Doctrine, copied and pasted below from the US Copyright Office stipulates that it is legal and permissible to use copyrighted material under the fair use doctrine for purposes of parody.
Copyright attorneys also warned us that given our clearly lawful use of the song We are the World, if anyone wished to silence our voices, they wouldn't target us. Instead they would target YouTube. It is YouTube's standard practice to remove any material that they receive even the flimsiest threat for because the company wishes to avoid all litigation.
At the same time, this is not YouTube's first move to silence Israeli voices...
Read the rest at the link. Let's be clear. There is no copyright issue here as far as this layman who has to worry about these things can see. Parody is absolutely protected under the doctrine of fair use.
Caroline Glick writes:
...stay tuned for our next video next Thursday night.
If someone is in fact trying to silence our voices, they will soon discover that they are messing with the wrong Jews...
Support Latma here.
This is cowardly and poor behaviour on the part of YouTube.
Cross-posted:
eChurch - YouTube Caves to Jihad, Removes ‘We Con the World’
Isn't youtube controlled by Google?
Another, have you heard the one about Hamas ...
h/t Melanie Phillips