McCain Fights for the Right to Remix on YouTube By Saul Hansell(UPDATED 10/15: Added YouTube’s response)
Internet issues have taken a back seat in the presidential campaign. But this week, even as Senator John McCain unveiled his new economic plan, he also introduced a new position on copyright law.
Trevor Potter, the general counsel for the McCain-Palin presidential campaign, sent a letter on Monday to Chad Hurley, the chief executive of YouTube, complaining that the video service, now owned by Google, had inappropriately removed McCain commercials from its site.
The commercials incorporated snippets of television news broadcasts. Using provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the news organizations demanded that the commercials be removed from YouTube because they violated the organizations’ copyrights. ...
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For an eye-opening discussion of the problem of copyright "overreaching" in this and other contexts, see Jason Mazzone’s article, “Copyfraud,” published by New York University. It is available for (free) download here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244