Fox News Tries Selective DMCA Takedowns: If Liberal Bloggers Use...

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 11/13/2009 - 19:13

An anonymous reader alerts us to the story that Fox News has sent a series of DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for a guy who's been putting up clips that have been popular among the "liberal" blogworld.

Now, there's an open question as to whether or not these clips are fair use -- but even if we assume that they are infringing, there's an interesting element to this.

They only targeted the guy who posts clips that liberal blogs...


 

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