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StephanieLenz’s case will be familiar to many of you: After publishing a 29-second video on YouTube that shows her toddler dancing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy,” Ms. Lenz received email from YouTube, informing her that the video was being taken down at Universal Music’s request. She filed a DMCA counter-notification claiming the [...]
United States District Judge Jeremy Fogel has refused to dismiss StephanieLenz's EFF-backed lawsuit against Universal Music Publishing Group that "asks for a declaratory judgment that Lenz's home video does not infringe any Universal copyright, as well as damages and injunctive relief restraining Universal from bringing further copyright claims in connection with the video." Universal...
THE ability to upload video clips to YouTube is no longer in its infancy, but the music publishers for the artist formerly known as "the artist formerly known as Prince" have raised a copyright infringement claim that involves a dancing infant.HaADVERTISEMENTving taken a video of her 18-month-old son dancing in the kitchen, StephanieLenz decided to upload the footage to YouTube "for...
THE ability to upload video clips to YouTube is no longer in its infancy, but the music publishers for the artist formerly known as "the artist formerly known as Prince" have raised a copyright infringement claim that involves a dancing infant.HaADVERTISEMENTving taken a video of her 18-month-old son dancing in the kitchen, StephanieLenz decided to upload the footage to YouTube "for...
Stephanie Lenz uploaded a 30 second clip of her toddler son dancing to Prince’s song “Let’s Go Crazy” to share with family and friends back in February 2007. Universal Music Publishing insisted the music was “not authorized by the copyright owner” and asked that it be removed. To make a long story short, Stephanie is now involved in a lengthy legal battle, backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation....
Pop superstar PRINCE's record company is battling a woman who posted a video of her child dancing to one of his songs on YouTube. Stephanie Lenz uploaded the 29-second ...
Now the RIAA playing the devils advocate is something that you all must be familiar with. So even this story wont be raising many eyebrows. My point of writing this article is something totally different, but let me first tell you this story anyway. StephanieLenz uploaded a 30 second clip of her toddler son dancing to Princes song Go Crazy to share with family and friends back in February...
Last Updated: 1:37PM BST 09 Sep 2008Stephanie Lenz uploaded the short film of her unnamed son to the video sharing site in February 2007. The 29-second clip shows the toddler bouncing up and down in time to Prince's hit Let's Go Crazy while holding on to a pushchair. He smiles as Ms Lenz asks "What do you think of the music?". The quality of the recording is fairly poor. However, four...
Everybody agrees. StephanieLenz' video of her young son with Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" playing in the background was a fair use of a copyrighted work. But Universal submitted a DMCA takedown notice on the video and YouTube took it down for a month until Lenz was able to get it restored. Now Lenz is suing Universal for interfering with her legal right to create and distribute...
Page 1 of 2A US federal judge has ruled that fair use rules do apply to YouTube video clips and must be taken into account before issuing takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Which means the dancing baby can keep going crazy to Prince after all... Last year StephanieLenz posted a short, 29 second, video clip to YouTube. It showed her then 18 month old baby dancing...
A brief recap for those who haven’t been following the case:Around Feb. 2007, StephanieLenz posted a Youtube video of her toddler laughing and dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy”. The song is heard somewhat indistinctly in the background of the low resolution, low fidelity 29 second video.
A YouTube video of dancing toddlers sparked a lawsuit that could establish an important legal principle for user-generated content online. Universal Music Publishing had forced YouTube to remove the half-minute video by StephanieLenz, which featured her two children cavorting to a Prince song (Prince's songs are published by Universal). Backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lenz...
... the same, I have no idea who first used the term. I take no credit for the phrase.) To sum it up: StephanieLenz posted a 29 second video to YouTube of an adorable child bopping to "Let’s Go Cray" by a certain artist with a serious identity crisis. Some, in my opinion, zipperhead at Universal who removed his brain the night before and forgot to reinsert it before going to work thought...
Over the past 24 hours there have been well over 100 blog posts about the recent ruling in the Lenz v. Universal case. The ruling, which found that copyright holders must consider fair use when submitting a DMCA notice, has been met with open arms by most on the Web and has earned rave reviews from nearly every source. Though the ruling is, quite correctly, being heralded as a big step toward...
... makes fair use of the copyright," Judge Jeremy Fogel wrote in a .At issue is a 2007 home video StephanieLenz took of her young children dancing in the family's kitchen to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy." Lenz posted the 29-second video to YouTube on February 8 with the title "Let's Go Crazy #1."In June 2007, Universal Music, which owns the rights to the Prince song, contacted YouTube...
