Furore after YouTube pulls line dance video

Shaun Nichols, vnunet.com

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has stepped in on behalf of an amateur video maker in a copyright case involving a popular line dance...

"Silver's claim of copyright infringement is absurd and is a classic example of the kind of Digital Millennium Copyright Act abuse that can chill internet speech," said EFF attorney Corynne McSherry.

"Even if Silver had a valid copyright in the dance, which is not at all clear, this is fair use and not infringing."

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