Speaking of the Presidential campaign, here is an interesting bit on political campaigns and copyright -- McCain Fights for Right to Remix on YouTube - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com:
Internet issues have taken a back seat in the presidential campaign. But this week, even as John McCain unveiled his new economic plan, he also introduced a new position on copyright law.
Trevor Potter, the general counsel for the McCain-Palin campaign, sent a letter on Monday to Chad Hurley, the chief executive of YouTube, complaining that the video service, now owned by Google, has inappropriately removed McCain commercials from its site.
The commercials incorporated snippets of television news broadcasts. Using provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the news organizations demanded that the commercials be removed from YouTube because they violated the organizations’ copyrights.
The piece notes that Senator McCain supported the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
If nothing else, I hope this raises awareness of this issue of "fair-use" -- something that we need to confront as we move forward in the I-Cubed Economy.
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