No More News1News Videos After Fox Orders Youtube Purge Of Liberal Channels

Liberals cry ‘unfair’ after Fox orders unbalanced YouTube purge


Liberal bloggers are accusing Fox News of launching an Internet war against them in a campaign to selectively remove Fox clips from YouTube.

On Wednesday, YouTube shut down the popular News1News channel, which featured news clips that many progressive bloggers and news sites would add to their stories. On the rare occasion, Raw Story also embedded News1News clips in stories having to do with media coverage. The channel provided clips from all news networks, but often focused on Fox's controversial commentators.

The decision to shut down News1News came after Fox News issued 150 take-down notices to the channel, which they are entitled to do under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, reports Adrian Chen at Gawker. YouTube's policy is to shut down any accounts that receive three or more take-down notices, so News1News was immediately pulled offline.




Thus, Fox's move will mostly affect stories posted on progressive-leaning blogs, such as Gawker, the Huffington Post and Truthdig, while leaving intact YouTube clips embedded at conservative Web sites. Instead of embedded video, visitors to those sites will now see a notice stating that the video in question is "no longer available."

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/fox-shuts-liberal-bloggers/



Update Conservative channels closed as of Sat Nov 14,2009



*****Make Sure You Inform Any Channel Thats In Violation*****

Although when you produce content like FOX News you might as well be "Star Wars Kid". Better that nobody sees it - at least where comments can be made and you don't have control.

Eventually, somebody with some legal resources will introduce them to the concept of "Fair Use". They're not to bright about that sort of thing.

Why doesn't Youtube just use the already accepted "fair use" conventions?