March 22nd, 2009

As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes

By Tim Arango, New York Times

In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing “Winter Wonderland,” and she posted it on YouTube...

“Thousands of videos disappeared,” said Fred von Lohmann, staff lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet civil liberties group that asked affected YouTube users to contact it. “Either they turned off the audio, or they pulled the video.”

Related Issues: DMCA, Free Speech, No Downtime for Free Speech Campaign

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