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July 30, 2018 05:01 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HoUN1KPtjtc/casual-censorship.html
Universal, having learned nothing from its "dancing baby" ass-kicking, is once again attacking Prince fans
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…)
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