San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports that Universal Music Group has dropped efforts to have a video critical of its hip-hop artist Akon posted by conservative pundit Michelle Malkin removed from YouTube. UMG sent YouTube a takedown notice on the video, in which Malkin uses snippets of Akon's act to criticize him as a "misogynist." With assistance from the EFF, Malkin then sent a counter-notice to YouTube, claiming her video made fair use of UMG content; the video is now once again available on the site.

San Francisco - Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, with the legal backing of digital civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has contested an attempt by major label Universal Music Group to have her podcast criticizing one of its artists removed from YouTube under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).