Anti-Gay-Rights Group Gets MSNBC Clip Pulled From YouTube

[meegbear]

The National Organization for Marriage seems to be ratcheting up its efforts to suppress the audition videos that leaked from its anti-gay-rights "gathering storm" shoot. According to YouTube, the group has gotten a clip from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show pulled from the site.

In the segment, which aired Thursday, Maddow criticizes the group's ad, and shows 40 seconds of the audition tapes. "We do not know how Human Rights Campaign got access to the audition tapes, but because they did, we do know that pretending to be a straight person hurt by gay marriage is apparently very, very challenging," she says.

The clip was previous available on YouTube, but now the page says "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by National Organization for Marriage."

MSNBC, of course, would have been well within its rights to demand the clip be removed. But NOM asserting a copyright interest to have a critical newscast scrubbed from the net? That sets an extraordinary precedent.

Update: The Rachel Maddow Show writes in to point out that the clip is still available on MSNBC's website. The section on the NOM ad begins at 2:15.

Update April 14, 2009: Rachel Maddow addressed the DMCA take-down on Monday night's show. It's on YouTube ... at the moment.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/anti-gay-rights.html

[One_Life_To_Give]

1. This should work out well for them.

This should work out well for them.:crazy:

Now that they have taken legal action to remove the video from Youtube, nobody will see it.:think: :sarcasm:

[bluedawg12]

2. ....

:rofl:

[tbyg52]

4. Weeeeelllllll.....

*I'd* never have known about it otherwise. And since I'm always the last to know, you can bet that now the whole world knows..... ;)

[sui generis]

3. snork. nothing to be ashamed of, now move along.

and the best part is the bottomless well of palm2face that pity party stirs up in me.