Prince vs the Dancing Baby

Hollywood Grind — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:23:41 +0000

An 18 month-old baby dances in the video to Prince’s "Let’s Go Crazy," which causes Prince and his record company to go crazy. You can barely hear the music playing in the background, and it’s only part of the 29 second clip. Copyright laws need to be revised. TMZ reports:

Stephanie Lenz posted a 29-second video clip of her son dancing to the Prince track back in February, according to ABC News. In June, she received an email from YouTube saying that her video had been removed at the request of Universal Music Publishing Group, and that she could have her YouTube account canceled in the event of any future copyright infringements.

In response to Universal’s "takedown notice," Lenz filed a "counter-notice" and her video was restored six weeks later. For its part, YouTube told ABC that they are bound by provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to honor all takedown and counter-notices.

In a statement released to ABC, Universal said:

"Prince believes it is wrong for YouTube, or any user-generated site, to appropriate his music without his consent … It’s simply a matter of principle."

A matter of principle is a convenient way to say, “it may not be right, but we have an excuse, an unfair law is on our side.” Another nice way to say it is, “use our copyrighted material and we’ll rip your balls off.”

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Prince vs the Dancing Baby

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