February 12th, 2009

Copyright in the Age of YouTube

By Steven Seidenberg, ABA Law Journal

Holden Lenz had just learned to walk when—on Feb. 7, 2007—he stepped into the front lines of the copyright wars...

“Companies that depend on user-generated content —and MySpace, Facebook, AOL, virtually every major Internet company incorporates user-generated content —they create a new and more vibrant public sphere,” says Corynne McSherry, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, who is representing Lenz in her lawsuit against UMG. “We have a whole new set of channels of communication. It’s good for con sumers and good for citizens.”

Related Issues: Free Speech

Related Cases: Lenz v. Universal

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