onehitwonder writes “Lawrence Lessig has teamed with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to sue Liberation Music, which recently demanded that YouTube take down a lecture Lessig had posted that features clips from the song ‘Lisztomania’ by the French band Phoenix (on Liberation Music’s label). Liberation claimed copyright infringement as the reason it demanded the takedown, but in his countersuit, Lessig is claiming Liberation’s ‘overly aggressive takedown violates the DMCA and that it should be made to pay damages,’ according to Ars Technica.”… onehitwonder writes “Lawrence Lessig has teamed with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to sue Liberation Music, which recently demanded that YouTube take down a lecture Lessig had posted that features clips from the song ‘Lisztomania’ by the French band Phoenix (on Liberation Music’s label). Liberation claimed copyright infringement as the reason it demanded the takedown, but in his countersuit, Lessig is claiming Liberation’s ‘overly aggressive takedown violates the DMCA and that it should be made to pay damages,’ according to Ars Technica.”

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