{"id":22505,"date":"2017-01-13T18:34:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T23:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22505"},"modified":"2017-01-13T18:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T23:34:06","slug":"youtube-joins-the-fake-news-crusade-shuts-down-popular-conservative-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22505","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Joins The “Fake News” Crusade, Shuts Down Popular Conservative Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube Joins The “Fake News” Crusade, Shuts Down Popular Conservative Channel<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Late last night YouTube blocked the channel of the influential conservative politics and law website, “Legal Insurrection<\/a>,” citing copyright infringement claims.\u00a0 The creator of the website, Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson, told\u00a0Fox News<\/a>\u00a0he was given no warning of the action and no opportunity to defend himself, saying\u00a0“it\u2019s very frustrating, it\u2019s very scary, to have 8 years of content removed without a chance to defend yourself.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Without notice, YouTube replaced Legal Insurrection’s channel with the following notice:
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While the infringement notice from YouTube cited\u00a0“multiple third-party claims”,<\/strong>\u00a0earlier this morning,\u00a0Legal Insurrection posted the following update<\/a>\u00a0to their website noting the complaint came solely from the Modern Language Association and was based on a couple of short excerpts borrowed from a 2-hour video from MLA that were\u00a0“well-within fair use.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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UPDATE 1-13-2017 9:50 a.m. \u2014 I just received notice from YouTube that the\u00a0copyright claims were filed by the Modern Language Association based on excerpts of audio of pro- and anti-Israel speakers at the MLA Annual Meeting we reported on in this post,\u00a0Massive DEFEAT for BDS at Modern Language Association<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div>\n

We intend to fight this both at the YouTube and legal level. It is\u00a0highly questionable that MLA owns the copyright for oral presentations at the Annual Meeting<\/strong>,\u00a0and even if it did, the limited excerpts we used from the nearly 2-hour video posted by MLA on YouTube are well-within fair use.<\/strong>\u00a0What I think is really going on here is that anti-Israel activists at MLA complained to MLA that MLA had posted the audio on YouTube. MLA took down its own 2-hour video and now seeks to silence our reporting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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YouTube Joins The “Fake News” Crusade, Shuts Down Popular Conservative Channel Late last night YouTube blocked the channel of the influential conservative politics and law website, “Legal Insurrection,” citing copyright infringement claims.\u00a0 The creator of the website, Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson, told\u00a0Fox News\u00a0he was given no warning of the action and no opportunity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14684,2779,3230,14683,3931],"class_list":["post-22505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-fair-use","tag-fake-news","tag-fox-news","tag-william-jacobson","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22506,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22505\/revisions\/22506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}