Newest YouTube User To Fight a Takedown: Lawrence Lessig 154
onehitwonder writes "Lawrence Lessig has teamed with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to sue Liberation Music, which recently demanded that YouTube take down a lecture Lessig had posted that features clips from the song 'Lisztomania' by the French band Phoenix (on Liberation Music's label). Liberation claimed copyright infringement as the reason it demanded the takedown, but in his countersuit, Lessig is claiming Liberation's 'overly aggressive takedown violates the DMCA and that it should be made to pay damages,' according to Ars Technica."
Stupid comment... (Score:5, Insightful)
(Rhetorical question ahead)
Why do we never hear what the artists, the ones who actually made the song or tune, have to say about this "infringements"?
Re:Stupid comment... (Score:4, Insightful)
Sure they do, and they used "their say" to sign a contract.
Luckily we live in a society where contracts are taken seriously.
Oh boy! (Score:0, Insightful)
Oh boy! I can't wait for Lessig to lose this case too [wikipedia.org], thereby setting a precedent that even further increases copyright holder's powers over "their" works!
Re:Stupid comment... (Score:5, Insightful)
Unless the contract ends up hurting a corporation, and then they just really get thrown out. Ask people who have lost their pensions.
Seriously... anyone that doesn't understand the practicality of this is being a corporate sycophant. The way that the legal and legislative system is right now corporations wield a HUGE amount of power.
Re:My take on where we are so far (Score:5, Insightful)
So, said professor turned into a Big, Bad Bully
Wrong. Standing up against a bully doesn't turn you into one.
Re:Stupid comment... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Stupid comment... (Score:4, Insightful)
In that case, "intellectual property" doesn't mean a whole lot because the intellect from which the work came into being is no longer a party to the property.
It's a truly twisted system, being abused by some very powerful people, who didn't create a goddamn thing.
I don't think that was the original purpose of copyright.
Re:Stupid comment... (Score:3, Insightful)
You're looking in the wrong places. There are lots of real musicians out there, but they're not multi-millionaires (and why should they be?) and their music isn't played on commercial radio stations or popular tv shows. You'll have to go watch them in a small venue like we used to before there was a music industry.