Liberal Party Activists Censoring YouTube Videos Critical of Stephane Dion
March 30, 2007 · By Greg Farries
It appears that YouTube user “liberalvideo” has been filing Copyright Infringement Notifications against videos that are critical of Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion. Two popular YouTube videos, one critical of Dion’s refusal to renounce his French citizenship, and the other, critical of the Liberals misuse of confidential materials, have been yanked from YouTube’s database.
If you attempt to look for these videos you’re met with the following:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by liberalvideo
It is unclear whether this is an isolated incident or whether this is a new tactic being employed to quell any unfavorable coverage of the Liberal party leader and or the Liberal Party.
Update: Stephen Taylor has got a copy of the video on his site. Go watch the video and see if you can see any copyright infringement.
Update 2: The “misuse of confidential materials” video has been uploaded to YouTube again, lets see how long it stays up…
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In my opinion the accusation of copyright infringement is a bit disingenuous, as anyone who actually watched the videos would agree, the footage contained was likely well within the ‘fair dealing’ parameters of Canadian copyright law.
I hope that “liberalvideo” does indeed have a copyright on the footage, because you cannot claim copyright for others.
As well perhaps whomever made those now banned videos can now find out just who this Liberalvideo really is. Inquiring minds want to know.
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If that’s the game they want to play, there’s nothing that can’t stop Tories from doing it right back to every single video posted by the libloggers.
So the story here isn’t that Conservatives broke the law?
Liberals claim a copyright to stupidity? Does that include corruption and malfeasance too? And pathetic leadership? I didn’t think those things could be copyrighted, even by the Liberal Party of Montreal?
Isn’t “liberalvideo” Jason Cherniak?
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It wouldn’t surprise me if it was Cherniak. Such a mouthy gutless asshole.
Given that most, if not all of the YouTube viedeo posted “liberalvideo†are clips from the news or CPAC, its rather interesting that they are filing “Copyright Infringement Notifications”.
I guess only some public events can be posted on YouTube in this person’s mind.
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man, if the CDN DMCA goes through with the stipulations it sounds like it has now…watch out! The take down notices will have a lot more weight behind them and will be acted on first (i mean on total sites, like this one or my own) its bad news, we’ve seen censorship abused like that down South when the DMCA came about down there, it’ll be just as bad or worse up here. I don’t hink anyone has connected the two here yet.
I could easily contact your ISP and give the impression you have violated copyright somewhere and BAM down goes your site until you prove otherwise. That’ll work both ways.
I agree with Jugger.
People need to have the right to share opinions. And if we don’t want our creative opinion suppressed, we need to get up and make a call or write a letter to you local MP, radio station, news paper.
Back later, because I have something more important to do. Write a letter.