DMCA

In September 2007, Creation Science Evangelism (CSE), a creationist group founded by Kent Hovind, recently sent a raft of DMCA takedown notices to YouTube complaining that various user-posted videos infringed its copyrights in videos of its seminars. Among those users whose videos were taken down was the Rational...  read more »

On March 5, 2008, a lawyer for the U.S. Air Force sent a DMCA takedown notice to YouTube, requesting that it remove a thirty-second Air Force promotional video posted to the site by Wired's Kevin Poulsen in connection with a February 27, 2008 article. The...  read more »

Finnish media artist Santeri Ojala created a series of popular YouTube videos that parody legendary guitarists such as Steve Vai, Carlos Santana, and Eric Clapton. In the videos, Ojala overdubbed the guitarists' performances with his own (intentionally) bad guitar playing. The combination of the guitarists' rock-star stage antics and...  read more »

Blogger "Spocko" posted audio clips from a talk radio program on San Francisco-based KSFO-AM on his blog in order to criticize what he viewed as racially insensitive and religioulsy intolerant rhetoric on the part of the radio hosts. In December 2006, ABC, Inc., which owned the...  read more »

Brian Sapient, a member of the "Rational Response Squad," a group which seeks to debunk what it considers irrational beliefs, posted a video on YouTube from the NOVA television program "Secrets of the Psychics," in which magician James Randi challenges the performance techniques of famous spoon-bender Uri Geller. The clip allegedly...  read more »

Michelle Malkin, a political commentator and columnist, publishes a daily video podcast called "Vent with Michelle Malkin." The video podcast appears on Malkin's conservative Internet broadcast network Hot Air and is also regularly posted on YouTube. In the May 2, 2007 edition of Vent, entitled...  read more »

MoveOn.org, a progressive political organization, and Brave New Films, LLC, a politically oriented film company, created a video parodying Comedy Central's Colbert Report. The video, entitled "Stop the Falsiness," shows clips of the Colbert Report interspersed with tounge-in-cheek "commentary" from MoveOn activists and...  read more »

Lawyers for the musician formerly known, and now currently known, as Prince have sent cease-and-desist letters and at least one DMCA takedown notice to the three largest Prince fansites, Prince.org, Princefams.com, and Housequake.com, demanding that they remove all photographs, images, lyrics, album covers,...  read more »

In November 2006, BoingBoing reported that its Canadian-based ISP received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice from Michael Crook requesting that BoingBoing remove a screengrab of him from a Fox News channel program "Hannity and Colmes" that BoingBoing posted on its blog. Crook...  read more »

On October 31, 2007, Doug Clark of the Greensboro News-Record wrote a blog post about a campaign speech made by Douglas McCullough, a North Carolina Court of Appeals judge, to a group of Republican supporters. During the speech, McCullough made statements implying that voting for a...  read more »