Nate Anderson reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation - a nonprofit group that looks to protect digital rights and free speech - is suing Viacom for its misuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Among thousands of DMCA takedown notices sent out, is one of a Stephen Colbert parody video that the EFF claims doesn’t violate any copyright laws.
The video does contain clips from “The Colbert Report,” but the EFF argues that these qualify as fair use, since parody has a well-recognized copyright exemption. “Our clients’ video is an act of free speech and a fair use of ‘Colbert Report’ clips,” said EFF staff attorney Corynne McSherry in a statement…
We’ll keep an eye on this for you, as its important the courts recognize your rights to “fair use” of copyrighted content, otherwise, we’d all be in hot water.
