Article 3VVS7 Universal, having learned nothing from its "dancing baby" ass-kicking, is once again attacking Prince fans

Universal, having learned nothing from its "dancing baby" ass-kicking, is once again attacking Prince fans

by
Cory Doctorow
from on (#3VVS7)

050-056c026d-1c66-4d42-9fae-a8e96df290c5

In 2008, Universal Music fraudulently claimed that a short Youtube clip of a toddler dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was a copyright infringement, leading to eight years of litigation and, eventually, a landmark ruling secured by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in which the court found that Universal had a duty to consider fair use before using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to censor other peoples' media. (more")

External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location https://boingboing.net/feed
Feed Title
Feed Link https://boingboing.net/
Reply 0 comments