YouTube has determined that the copyright claim by Al Green and BMG Rights Management was not valid, and have restored the new campaign video that Obama and the Democrats obviously do not want you to see.
The the “Political Payoffs And Middle Class Layoffs” video was only restored after the video was posted to vimeo.com, a website that competes with YouTube, which leads us to wonder if the restoration of the video may be an attempt to keep users coming to their site for videos, instead of heading over to vimeo.com, where there seems to be much less politicization going on.
Here is the “Political Payoffs And Middle Class Layoffs” video. Enjoy!
Unfortunately YouTube has removed these videos from their platform to hide the truth from the American People. Another coverup with the help of Google/YouTube.
I think everyone should start using legal “Fair Use” clips of Al Green’s music in their YouTube videos – just to piss off Al Green and BMG Rights Management.
YouTube on Thursday restored a Web ad for Mitt Romney featuring audio of President Barack Obama singing a few bars of an Al Green classic, concluding it did not infringe on Green’s copyright to the song.
The 30-second spot attacking Obama for alleged cronyism was removed on Tuesday after BMG Rights Management filed a complaint on behalf of Green, an Obama supporter. Obama riffed on the crooner’s “Let’s Stay Together” at a fundraiser at New York’s Apollo Theater in January when mentioning that Green was in the audience.
The Romney campaign sent YouTube an appeal letter on Wednesday asserting the footage in the ad, titled “Political Payoffs And Middle Class Layoffs,” was fair use under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and not a copyright violation.
YouTube executives agreed with Romney. The appeals process usually takes at least a week, but YouTube made a faster determination in this high-profile case.
“When we’re notified that a particular video uploaded to our site infringes another’s copyright, we remove the material in accordance with the law,” a YouTube spokesman said in an email statement to POLITICO. “We have a counter notification process in place if a user believes a content owner has misidentified their video, and we reinstate content if a user prevails in that process. We also reinstate videos in cases where we are confident that the material is not infringing, or where there is abuse of our copyright tools.”
In addition to taking down the Romney ad, YouTube also removed video posted months ago of Obama’s riff by the Associated Press and ABC News. Those videos have also now been restored.
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