TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, March 04, 2007

When 9/11 researchers last week discovered and disseminated a clip of BBC news reporters announcing that WTC building 7 had "collapsed" more than 20 minutes before it was destroyed in a controlled demolition on September 11, 2001. Leading corporate-connected, CIA- and NWO-controlled websites such as Google Video attempted to purge the video from the web, but ultimately gave up in the face of thousands fo grassroots infowarriors continuously uploading the video.

The image brought to mind other incidents over the past year of corporate media using copyright as a pretext to censor reality on behalf of their New World Order masters

One day after the 2006 midterm election, Bill Maher appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and announced that everyone in Washington knew that RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman was gay. CNN edited the comment from the late-night replay of the program, but not before gay activist John Aravosis of AmericaBlog.com had posted the exchange to YouTube.

But the informational clip did not stay up on YouTube very long. CNN demanded that YouTube pull the video under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and YouTube complied.

However, Arianna Huffington's Huffington Post also hosted a clip of Maher and King and persevered in hosting the clip despite the blizzard of legal claims which saw it purged from everywhere else on the net. Is the law different for YouTube than it is for HuffingtonPost? No. But they have different lawyers. HuffingtonPost, which stresses the importance of fearlessness, did not take the bogus legal arguments of YouTube and CNN at face value -- and they turned out just fine.

Last May, the producers of the 9/11 documentary "Loose Change" received a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing the Naudet Brothers, some of whose film taken on 9/11 was used in "Loose Change." "Loose Change" producers Louder Than Words, Inc. have kept the Naudet film in online versions of their film but reportedly will back off of using this footage in an upcoming theatrical release.

Since that incident, the Naudet brothers have proved their motivation behind the legal threats to be little more than the suppression of information regarding 9/11. For after all, the most important Naudet footage used in "Loose Change", of New York firemen describing the explosions that went off in the twin towers, was in fact purged from the fifth anniversary edition of the film which aired on CBS September 11, 2006.

As "Loose Change" moves toward a theatrical edition and the BBC incident portends greater video battle ahead, the 9/11 truth movement should become increasingly fearless in asserting First Amendment free speech and fair use rights in intellectual property issues. At primary issue is evidence of a crime of mass murder -- evidence which should not be suppressed by those seeking to abuse copyright law. If an IP attorney with a history of siding with copyright totalists advises cowering before the likes of the Naudet brothers, he perhaps should be shunted aside for one more fearless -- one who would relish the opportunity to call the Naudets on their bluff and put them under oath about their possible foreknowledge of 9/11.

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Comments:
Good post, Total.

Fred


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