MyMediaMusings

There is an article over on TechDirt that just makes me shake my head sadly:

“Scorpio Music sent a letter to Yahoo (presumably a DMCA notice) that stated that a video created by Loren Feldman infringed on copyrighted material they control. The alleged infringement is over the use of the YMCA song by the Villiage People.

The video doesn’t play the song. At one point, for a couple of seconds, the puppets sang one line of it (around the 1:30 mark). Yahoo removed the video immediately (it’s still up at YouTube and is embedded above), and sent an email to Feldman threatening to terminate his account.”

The issues surrounding copyright and fair use are probably THE key issue as the internet becomes fully ingrained into society.  I don’t see how the artists on either side of the debate benefit from this sort of behavior.

Lawyers win again.