14 Oct, 2008
McCain’s Hypocritical Complaints Against YouTube
John McCain has recently complained about YouTube’s policy of removing campaign videos that infringe upon copyright protection laws is unfair.
As John McCain sees it, removing these videos (which frequently use televised debate footage and pop songs before negotiating the rights to them) ’stifles free speech’.
John McCain has no right to cry about the fair usage in the Media. He didn’t see any problem in using songs by The Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Frankie Valli, Van Halen, and Heart without their permission.
In fact, the McCain Campaign continued to use Heart’s song “Barracuda” after they expressly asked him to stop, and Jackson Brown even had to sue the Republican Party to stop John McCain from using his song.
If John McCain wants to cry to youtube, perhaps he should listen to the pleas of the musicians he’s tried to exploit first.
