YouTube removed my video "Bush is Ignorant and Extremely Dangerous" telling me that CBS Broadcasting, Inc claimed that it was infringing on their copyright. It wasn't, I had a right to use a short clip to comment on and criticize under Fair Use.
I uploaded the Bush is Ignorant and Extremely Dangerous video to LiveVideo since YouTube removed it.
There was no justification for removing the video. I used 18 seconds of audio, with one still frame in order to comment on an extremely serious matter where the President of the United States makes another false statement. I also used 7 seconds of video without audio to critique the segment as well (it showed the interviewer and Bush). This is in a 70 second video that I present as my news analysis. This CLEARLY falls under Fair Use. My video has been pulled off of YouTube and this notice is in its place: "This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner CBS Broadcasting, Inc because its content was used without permission" That is BS. I have a right under Fair Use to use 18 seconds of audio and 7 seconds of video to analyze an extremely important issue of the day. If what I did in this video is not "Fair Use" then nothing is.
"The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use,"one of these examples is "quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment"
President Bush was interviewed on 60 Minutes by Scott Pelley at Camp David. The online interview clip and transcript reveals something that they left out of the TV version: Increadibly, Bush thinks the Iranian President "threatened countries with nuclear weapons" and that he "said he wants a nuclear weapon." Please stop the 'War President' before he starts WWIII.
You can see my video about this here: Killing Free Speech: Fair Use Video Removed by YouTube