San Francisco - Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has expanded its campaign to rid user-generated videos of its copyrighted music beyond YouTube (NASD: GOOG) to Vimeo, where the wife of a ZDNet columnist saw her video slideshow of friends drinking removed under a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice. The reporter believes the music in the video to be a "fair use" of Warner’s content. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) noted that a recent court ruling stipulated that copyright owners must consider fair use before sending DMCA takedown notices, or face charges of misrepresentation under the DMCA.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9774
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/warner-music-targeting-more-youtube
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