This story is all over the Internets today. But it seems worth repeating here since we noticed the suggestion that the Cloud might be self-regulating. And of course, that story also had to do with the current campaign.
YouTube to McCain: You Made Your DMCA Bed, Lie in It | Threat Level from Wired.com
McCain campaign general counsel Trevor Potter argued that several of the removed ads, which had used excerpts of television footage, fall under the four-factor doctrine of fair-use, and shouldn’t have been removed.But citing the DMCA, a controversial copyright law that McCain voted to approve a decade ago, Levine pointed out that YouTube risks being sued itself if it doesn’t respond promptly to takedown notices.
