[A2k] Slashdot | YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

James and all,

  Under the circumstances, good for YouTube/Google.  But
I have to wonder why it was on YouTube in the first place
at all?  However I can't see any reason why any media
organization, which YouTube isn't, would for any reason
be so sanctioned accordingly for such a newsworthy story,
however distadteful it may be or seem.

James Love wrote:

> http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/12/1127220
>
> "The International Olympic Committee filed a copyright infringement
> claim yesterday against YouTube for hosting video of a Free Tibet
> protest at the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan Thursday night. The video
> depicts demonstrators conducting a candlelight vigil and projecting a
> protest video onto the consulate building; the projection features
> recent footage of Tibetan monks being arrested and riffs on the Olympic
> logo of the five interlocking rings, turning them into handcuffs.
> YouTube dutifully yanked the video. . .
>
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