Westboro Baptists Video Censored by Sony ATV Publishing

The original version of this video was posted on August 3, 1009. It included racist Shirley Phelps-Roper at a demonstration in Chicago. She sang a horrible, anti-Semitic song, with her own terrible - but original - lyrics to the tune of The Beatles' "Hey Jude." This was a news event. Phelps-Roper is a news maker. The video was presented as both news and documentary. Still, on October 20, 2009, Sony ATV Publishing complained to YouTube and forced the removal of the sound of Phelps-Roper singing. This is the equivalent of forcing a television news show to not air a report in which, for example, a US Senator sings a song to the tune of, say, a Beach Boys song. Inclusion of such material, even though copyrighted, is "fair use." Sony ATV Publishing apparently has no respect for fair use of music in news or documentary videos. But why did they target my video? It was only posted for two and a half months, but if you search for "hey jude" on YouTube you find "about 15,100" videos. Some of those are approved, but many are clearly in violation of copyrights. One, for example, shows some young girls singing the original "Hey Jude" lyrics to the actual tune, but it is neither news nor documentary of a news maker. The hypocrisy of Sony ATV Publishing is disgusting - I believe that they targeted my video because it featured a controversial figure singing her own horrible lyrics to a Beatles tune. Is Sony ATV Publishing afraid of truth? Why do they suppress news, and why are they not playing by "fair use?"

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Sony
• Sony ATV Publishing
• Hey Jude
• Shirley Phelps
• Westoboro Baptists
• Emanuel Congregation
• copyrights
• fair use

[JakeLong994]

Oh!!!!! I have the same problem man,

I uploaded 3 vids which it shows that those 3 are owned by Sony ATV AND UMPG which means ' Universal Music Public Group '.

oh man i m tired of it.

what should i do pls someone help.

[rogersparkbench]

@JakeLong994 Not much us little guys can do, Jake. In my case, I was posting the video as a news item. If I had a million dollars to throw away on legal fees I would fight the bastards. What kills me is how inconsistent YouTube is about this. My vid was up for less than a year, yet I see hundreds of videos that blatantly violate copyrights without any reasonable claim to fair use.

[einsatzdeath]

Parody is fair use, and WBC don't make any profit off of it. Shame on Sony fags.

[rogersparkbench]

@einsatzdeath You're right, and I would not have made any money from it either.

[cne08]

I'm happy about what Sony did.

[rogersparkbench]

@cne08 Why? You're against presenting an actual news item as news?

[bigfilmhat]

August 3rd, 1009?! Wow the poster of this video is way, WAY ahead of his time.

[DavidLynch007]

Sony has burdened themselves with the people of God. That's not very smart of them.

[LandofDaFree]

You're right about why the video was removed. That's messed up.