February 12th, 2009
Rodeo group to pay $25,000 for YouTube takedown requests
By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
A rodeo association has agreed to pay $25,000 to an animal welfare group to settle a lawsuit over the improper removal of videos from YouTube that showed roped calves being dragged off to die and tasers being used on tame horses to get them to buck...
The group that posted them, Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK), with the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the rodeo group last summer. The group sued for misrepresentation, alleging that the videos could not have infringed any copyright because the rodeos themselves weren't copyrightable, the EFF said.
Related Issues: Free Speech, Intellectual Property, No Downtime for Free Speech Campaign
Related Cases: SHARK v. PRCA
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