*Source: News Blog (News.com) (
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9749386-7.html)*
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We all heard the stories about the Recording Industry Association of America lawsuits and the mostly college students who found themselves in the crosshairs several years ago.
Many people are opposed to music piracy, but far fewer actually agreed with the RIAA's heavy-handed legal approach (
http://news.com.com/Court+RIAA+lawsu...-5129687.html).
Among dissenters is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_07.php#005376), which on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against RIAA member (
http://www.riaa.com/aboutus.php?cont...boutus_members) Universal Music Publishing Group after the company asked that a home video be removed from YouTube due to copyright infringement. The video (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ) features 18-month-old Holden Lenz dancing to Prince's "Let's Get Crazy" and runs for a total of 29 seconds. Following Universal's complaint, the video was removed by YouTube and remained offline until recently.
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