John McCain, the DMCA and the Law of Unintended Consequences

John McCains campaign has been hit by the DMCA. They have had some videos removed by Youtube, despite the fact that they fell within Fair Use. And they are pissed. McCains General Council, Trevor Potter, raises some good points in his letter to YouTube, but his proposed solution is elitist and unacceptable.


The Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses YouTubes takedown of some of John McCains videos due to DMCA complaints:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/mccain-campaign-feels-dmca-sting


The letter written to YouTube by Trevor Potter, General Council for the McCain Presidential campaign:

http://www.eff.org/files/McCain%20YouTube%20copyright%20letter%2010.13.08.pdf


The Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses Youtubes reponse to Trevor Potters letter.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/youtube-responds-mccain-campaigns-letter

Here is YouTubes response:

http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/files/youtube-letter-20080514.pdf


An interesting article from Law.com on what this all means:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202425301216


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The following video discusses an incident where Youtube removed a video about Viacom in response to a DMCA complaint. Youtube posted a notice stating, This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMoUKNIGEMk

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I explain in greater detail on my website why the DMCA is unconstitutional.

http://www.themaskedanalyst.com/The%20DMCA%20is%20Uncontstitutional.htm


I release this video into the public domain. I encourage you to copy it, to upload it to your channel, and to promote it. I especially encourage you to submit letters to the McCain and Obama encouraging them to consider issues raised in this video.


A transcript for this video can be found here:

http://www.themaskedanalyst.com/John%20McCain%20the%20DMCA%20and%20the%20Law%...

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[themaskedanalyst]

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[whiic]

Too bad the voice of reason doesn't get much publicity in media or power in governmental decision making. For example EFFI wasn't even heard during latest overhaul of copyright and criminal laws in Finland... instead they decided to hear people like Save the Children, who have not IT expertize at all, and the came with rules that banned making of back-up copies of DVDs and decided to censor the internet for "child porn" (and ended up censoring w3(dot)org. How much FAIL was that?