You Should Hide Your Babies from Prince, Just To Be Safe
We briefly touched on the fact that Prince went on a sue-spree last year, where he decided to go after his fans and a little baby with DMCA notices and trademark infringement suits. In case you missed it, essentially, the YouTube video embedded below was taken offline by YouTube in response to a DMCA notice from Universal Music on behalf of Prince.
The EFF claimed that this was an abuse of the DMCA process in a lawsuit they filed on behalf of the little baby. The judge dismissed the case entirely, saying that even though there was a DMCA take-down notice, Universal never expressed intent to sue.
The ruling, as TechDirt stated, is a bit disappointing on that count, and also on the fact that the EFF requested a clear ruling from the judge on whether the faint music in the 30 second clip was in fact infringement, and the judge declined.
Perhaps, though, we can take the fact that the video is back online as a tacit approval from Universal/Prince that they just don’t care anymore. That hasn’t stopped the EFF from re-filing their lawsuit, this time with more explicit language so as to elicit a clear judgement as to whether this sort of thing is fair use or is in fact infringement.
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