Mom continues suing Prince, RIAA – over ‘fair use’
Stephanie Lenz is an angry Pennsylvania mother who refuses to back down from the music industry.
Lenz’s attorneys were in federal district court on Friday morning, trying to thwart a motion to dismiss her lawsuit against Universal Music Group. A year ago, the music label ordered YouTube to pull down a 30-second video she shot of her infant son dancing to Prince’s song “Let’s Go Crazy.”
Lenz, who resides in a rural Pennsylvania area, claims that her video is protected under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Fair Use provision in copyright law. She fought the order, and eventually, Universal Music abandoned any claim that she violated Prince’s copyright. YouTube has since reposted her clip.
Now Lenz is out to teach the music industry a lesson.
What Lenz and her attorneys at the Electronic Frontier Foundation want are for media companies to stop sending take-down notices in a “willy nilly” fashion and to make sure that they have a legitimate claim of copyright violation before acting.
These schmuck bureaucrats should learn not to mess with Mom…
I admire this lady.
Cut off the funding to these industry terrorists by not buying their product– or is this too much to expect from a populace whose first question when new technology emerges is, “Will it help us make a better television set?”
Morey
July 19, 2008 at 9:06 pm