Zimmer ad pulled from YouTube
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterAn internet advertisement launched by Republican Senate candidate Dick Zimmer two weeks ago has been taken off YouTube after a record company complained about copyright violations.
The ad featured the famed Led Zeppelin song “Ramble On” playing over footage of incumbent Sen. Frank Lautenberg speaking at a June event about gas prices.
Clicking on the video’s link on YouTube brings the user to a page that says “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.”
The video was uploaded on July 10th. According to a Web site that tracks videos taken off of Youtube, it was removed on July 14th.
A call to Warnter/Chappell Music was not immediately returned. Zimmer, however, said that the company did not contact his campaign and that the ad remains available on his Web site.
“My guess is that YouTube has a system where copyright owners merely have to suggest that a video be pulled and they pull it, but they haven’t approached us and I don’t know that they intend to,” he said. “I’m not an intellectual property lawyer myself,but we had our legal staff look into it and they said it was kosher.”
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Fair Use
Parody use of a copyrighted material in a political spot is legit. Should be covered under 1st Amemdment and the Copyright Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8). Don't mean to "ramble," but PUT THAT AD BACK UP, Mr. ZIMMER!
Fair Use
Parody use of a copyrighted material in a political spot is legit. Should be covered under 1st Amemdment and the Copyright Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8). Don't mean to "ramble," but PUT THAT AD BACK UP, Mr. ZIMMER!
Who cares
I agree that this complaint is silly, but C'mon Dick you need to do better than a YouTube ad that will sway no one and I mean no one's vote in this election...how many undecided voters are on YouTube looking for Dick Zimmer videos
Sloppy...but
does it really matter??
politickernj
with this story, has officially become the authority on all things inconsequential to an election
Parody
Legally, its probably not considered parody if its made by the Zimmer campaign and its primary purpose was to elect Zimmer.
Sounds like it was more of an anti-Lautenberg advertisement, then a true parody.
(Splitting hairs, I know...)
lame ad
like mccain break dancing. old farts trying to be "hep".
Intellectual Property
Obviously most of the posters on this website have no appreciation of intellectual property law. Zimmer stole the performance of Robert Plant singing. If Zimmer was singing, it might qualify as fair use. So empty your iPods of songs you didn't pay for and learn the value of other people's property. As someone running for an office that is responsible for these laws, Zimmer should have known better.
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