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20070725 Wednesday July 25, 2007
Universal Goes Crazy Music

In one of the worst abuses of the DMCA, Universal Music had YouTube take down a 29 second video of a child dancing to Prince's song Let's Go Crazy.  Fortunately, the EFF, and the mom, are suing Universal for it.  YouTube also reinstated the video.

The EFF is claiming that 29 seconds falls within "fair use."  I hope they win, but what is completely ridiculous is that the music is just playing in the background.  It's not dubbed over.  No artist in the world could show that this video hurt their IP or affected their sales in any way.


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