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John McCain and his presidential campaign has run into trouble with some of the aspects of American copyright law. McCain's has been using the Internet, one of the worlds largest mediums, to support his campaign. His campaign has been uploading videos onto YouTube using that site to get people to view his content.
YouTube, however, has been removing his videos because of complaints saying that they are not in compliance with the fair use laws. This out rages McCain and he feels that his videos should not be removed because he is a presidential candidate. He proposes that any complaints about videos uploaded by a political campaign would be reviewed by a human employee before any removal is put into action. The process for complaints against videos uploaded by millions of other Americans would stay the same. Their videos would be instantly removed by a computer program, and would take weeks for reinstatement. McCain just wants to be treated special, rather than like every other human being that uses YouTube.
YouTube rejected the request made by McCain and continues to delete videos that are no in compliance. John McCain's campaign is now protesting You Tube's video-removal policy, which has resulted in the deletion of some political advertisements the campaign believes are perfectly legal and protected by fair use. His campaign has points out that YouTube seems a bit too eager to remove political videos.
I think that the best solution for McCain is to find another site to share his videos. Who says that YouTube is the only site that videos can be shared on. His campaign just needs to be more creative in finding ways to reach people.
- Ronald Hudson
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The McCain campaign is beginning to remind me of a spoiled little kid who needs a long time-out. They go around taking things from other people, and when someone tells them they're wrong, they throw a fit and whine "That's not fair!" YouTube is being the grown-up in this situation by holding them to the same standards as everybody else. The campaign's belief that they're entitled to infringe upon any work that they think will further their agenda can only be described as out of touch.
I think this seems like a bad move right before the election to go after Youtube. I understand there are more important issues than whether Youtube has his campaign videos or not, but people who haven't decided yet probably won't see this as a good thing for McCain to be wasting his time with. He should just stop and move on before he embarrasses himself more.
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