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YouTube Censors Israel Gaza Flotilla Video
By
Joel Leyden Jerusalem
---- June 13, 2010 …. After this past week, no one can say
that the Jews control the media. Israel which suffers from both a lack of budget and PR professionals finally got in the last word with this viral marketed video, after the Israel Defense Forces were accused of killing "humanitarian peace activists". The so-called peace activists were actually caught on video attacking IDF soldiers who came to inspect a vessel for weapons. The IDF, which were carrying paintball guns, were attacked with gunfire, knives, metal poles, chains and metal balls made for slingshots.
"We Con the World," which was sung to the tune of "We Are the World," the 1980's fund-raising song for African poverty and recorded again last year to help the people of Haiti following a devastating earthquake, was removed from YouTube over a copyright claim by Warner / Chappell Music, Inc. The video was created by Latma, an Israel group that normally produces political satire in Hebrew. A Washington, D.C. think tank, the Center for Security Policy, funded the project. A link to the video was circulated by the Israel Government Press Office and several Web 2.0 PR professionals through Facebook and Twitter. When the Israel News Agency received the video it had only a few dozen views but within 24 hours the video had blasted off into cyberspace, with over 100,000 views. Carolyn Glick, a Latma editor and contributor to the Jerusalem Post stated that copyright attorneys had told the group that the use of the song for the parody falls under the Fair Use Doctrine. Fair Use is a doctrine in US copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as for commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship. Transcending this, the use of the We Con the World video was protected by the additional facts that it emerged from a non-profit group - no one was making any money from the distribution of this anti Jihad video. When searching for the video today on Google or YouTube one gets a disclaimer stating: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner/ Chappell Music, Inc." Please notice the word "claim". Are we missing something in this picture? Does this mean that all free speech on YouTube can come tumbling down with a simplistic "claim". Anyone can make a claim. My cats can make a claim. But to prove the claim is an entirely different matter. Israel has been subjected to so many false claims that one would believe that we hand out poison candy to Palestinian children and eat Palestinian babies. In fact today, one so called claim stating that a Palestine boy named Al-Dura who was supposed to have been killed by the IDF as a result of a faked death by the Palestinian Authority has been proven as a hoax by a French court. The French government TV channel originally broadcast staged scenes from segments of film that slandered the IDF. We in Israel may want to think that the world is changing in a positive manner, becoming more democratic and open to free speech. While in fact, a heavy and potent accent of Islamic Jihad is the creation of electronic Jihad and legal Jihad - holy war against all Jews and Christians. This Jihad is having a devastating effect everywhere - from London and Paris to Turkey and the White House. Israel needs to learn again what it learned in 1948. Never rely on others. Never take any nation's or corporate support for granted. Just listen to the prophetic words of the video: "the truth will not find its way to your TV." YouTube, which is owned by Google and was created by Jews, has turned her back to Israel during these days of severe crisis with both Islamic Jihad and Iran. We can only hope that YouTube learns that it made a mistake and abides by law and not succumbs to "claims" in the future. In the meantime, Israel will once again distribute We Con The World through other medias such as MetaCafe.com and JewTube.com. We must remember that the world stood quietly during the Holocaust as the 6 million walked into gas chambers. We will no longer be silenced. “It’s
not as if a clip that has been seen by 3.5 million viewers is
just going to disappear,” said Glick.
The Israel News Agency, which is accredited by Israel Government Press Office, was the first on line news organization in Israel. The INA reaches up to 60 million readers through Google News and Internet social networking channels such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from New York, London, Moscow and Paris to Toronto, Los Angeles, China and India. Leyden is presently launching the United States News Agency using the INA as a successful working model.
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