Universal: EFF SLAPPed us with dancing toddler DMCA lawsuit - Club CDFreaks

**platinumsword** · 29-04-2008

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California is one of the states with its own anti-SLAPP law, designed to prevent the powerful from filing a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation—in other words, to stop them from suing critics.

Link: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...a-lawsuit.html

*justcallmebob* · 10-05-2008

So if I understand the parts of the article that I read the parents were slapped with a lawsuit because a Prince song was playing the background and their kid was dancing to it? That's nuts.

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A 29-second video clip of a toddler dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" is the subject of a new court complaint against Universal Music Publishing Group, which demanded that the clip be removed from YouTube in early June. Apparently, the company believes that a few seconds of music blasting from a background stereo infringes on its copyright, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation disagrees. The EFF filed suit against Universal yesterday, alleging that the music in the clip was "self-evident non-infringing fair use."

Another link: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-eff-sues.html

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