Protect a senator or simply the application of copyright
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, a long hike expostulation-on-Net neutrality on June 22. The proposed speech, one can say with certainty, statements quite new, such as the Internet works. Something of a number of tubes and buckets. It was widely lampooned, especially on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”Ten films on the Internet and what happens with your personal information? “Stevens asked. I guess it was a rhetorical question. I just the other day, the Internet has been received by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday, I received yesterday. Why?”
The Daily Show “host Jon Stewart replied:” Because you do not seem to know, [while] on the computer or the Internet? But that’s okay. You are the only type with the regulations. ”
Of course, the Internet is really full of wise and smart-alecky man with time on their hands. Andrew Raff - describes a “sub-law graduate” in Brooklyn, who have an interest in Internet and intellectual property - sentence with the words of Stevens’s jeremiad Folky a melody. Raff a page named “Ted Stevens-Fan Club” and songs posted.
Three days later, Raff received an e-mail administrator MySpace, said the song was removed as a violation of My Space’s Terms of Service.
MySpace, for non-, is one of the most popular Web sites of social networks, with something like 85 million users. An Internet monitoring company noted that in the month of May this year quite a third of all Internet users visited MySpace.
Thus, powerful, a marketing tool, MySpace is that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., he bought last summer for $ 580 million. The company made MySpace a cornerstone of its new digital strategy, and is even opening a sister of Fox television called “My network”.
Raff was unable to determine why its parody of injuries each song MySpace-27 Terms of Service.
The folks at Public Knowledge, a representation of interests in Washington, that struggles for freedom of access to the Internet and other consumer issues, pointed out that News Corp. has some good reasons not to anger the powerful head of the Senate Commerce Committee.
Art Brodsky, Public Knowledge-communication, pointed out that the Committee Stevens recently granted a law that Newscorp ‘Fox DirecTV and television divisions. There is no increased risk for News Corp., one of its business units to take a look stupid senator.
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