Been following the story of the Israeli interception of the Turkish “Aid” to Gaza drama?
If so, you gotta see this. Priceless.
Sung to the tune of “We are the World”
UPDATE: After 3 Million Hits, YouTube censored the original posting of the video, claiming a copyright claim by Warner / Chappell Music. THIS IS A LIE.
But not to worry, you can still see it here.
Interesting that YouTube banned this, when they haven’t banned other vids that were a LOT more “offensive”. Guess Free Speech is on the way out unless it happens to be speech that whoever controls YouTube (or maybe soon the entire Internet) agrees with…. The copyright infringement excuse that YouTube used was just that, an excuse. From an article by Noah Rayman in the Jerusalem Post:
“Glick contested the notion that the video infringes on the original song. She said that Latma TV had received approval of the video from lawyers who cited the Fair Use Doctrine, an American copyright law that supports use of copyrighted material for satire.“Copyright experts we advised with before posting the song told us in no uncertain terms that we were within our rights to use the song because we did so in accordance with the Fair Use Doctrine,” Glick wrote on her Web site, in response to the removal of the video.Glick wrote that the video’s removal reflects subjective decision-making at YouTube, which Glick said has a history of removing Israeli clips.”
If the Control Freaks pushing Net Neutrality get their way, I’m afraid that the loss of Free Speech will only get worse…
So click on the picture below (requires flv player) or go to PJTV.com and watch it by clicking HERE.
Update Update: Wouldn’t you know it? YouTube re-posted the video. Guess they thought better of their censorship…..