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Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal 391

Posted by Zonk from the they-thought-of-the-children dept.
penguin_dance writes "A Pennsylvania mom is fighting back, suing Universal Music Publishing Group for having a home movie taken down off of YouTube. The movie, featuring her 18-month old bouncing to Prince's song, 'Let's Go Crazy,' was cited for removal by the Group for copyright infringement. Mom Stephanie Lenz was first afraid they'd come after her — then she got angry. She got YouTube to put the video back up, she's enlisted the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and she's filed a civil lawsuit (pdf). 'I thought even though I didn't do anything wrong that they might want to file some kind of suit against me, take my house, come after me. And I didn't like feeling afraid ... I didn't like feeling that I could get in trouble for something as simple as posting a home video for my friends and family to see.'"
Media

Submission + - Canadians believe Bush is a threat to peace: Poll

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denisbergeron
denisbergeron writes: "From the article "Canadians believe the world has become a more dangerous place since George W. Bush was elected U.S. president and a majority believe he will launch military strikes in Iran or North Korea before his term ends in 2008, according to a new Toronto Star poll."(...) "The same questions were posed to respondents by pollsters in Britain, Israel and Mexico."(...)"Mexicans ranked Bush the second-most dangerous of the five, behind Al Qaeda's bin Laden." (...) The good part of the article is this "[The] analysts here say anti-Americanism has become more intense under Bush than any other U.S. president before him."
Anyway, who care about what canadians and mexicans thinks."
Businesses

Submission + - IBM legal block failed, cancer study now published

Submitted by localoptimum
localoptimum writes: Dan Ferber of Science magazine recently reported (2nd page, on the right, pdf version) that, after IBM failed in its attempts to block a study by Richard Clapp of Boston University, the study has now been published.

From the article:
Clapp analyzed mortality data on 31,941 American IBM employees, many retired, who died between 1969 and 2001. ... He reported last week in Environmental Health that men and women in that group were 7% or 15% more likely respectively, to have died from cancer than were those in an age- and sex-matched subset of the U.S. population.

IBM's lawyers argued for almost 2 years that the study could be used only for litigation, but a New York district judge ruled in February that Clapp was free to publish it.

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