Toddler’s video upsets Prince
p2pnet news | Music:- Remember little Holden Lenz, Stephanie’s son?
He starred in a 29-second video, “bouncing along to the Prince song ‘Let’s Go Crazy playing in the background”
Then Vivendi Universal claimed the recording infringed a copyright.
“And you can barely hear the song,” p2pnet posted.
Then the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) stepped in to support free speech saying under US federal copyright law, “a mere allegation of copyright infringement can result in the removal of content from the Internet”.
The lawsuit asked for a declaratory judgment that Lenz’;s home video didn’t infringe any Universal copyright, as well as damages and injunctive relief restraining Universal from bringing further copyright claims in connection with the video.
Guess who was personally involved in the attempt to spoil Holden’s claim to came?
And it wasn’t even for 15 minutes.
“Universal said it was simply acting at the behest of one of its top artists,” says ABC News, going on:
“Prince believes it is wrong for YouTube, or any user-generated site, to appropriate his music without his consent,” the company said in a statement released to ABC News Thursday.”
As for Holden, he’s moved on to punk music.
“He loves music,” the story has his mother saying. “He likes all kind of music. At the time [of the video] he liked anything that was funk or anything that was R & B, and Prince fit perfectly in with that.”
Also See:
p2pnet – Mum sues Universal over YouTube video, July 24, 2007
ABC News – The Home Video Prince Doesn’t Want You to See, October 26, 2007
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October 26th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I can see the tabloid headlines now…
“PRINCE DROVE ME TO PUNK MUSIC!!”
October 26th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
This made Fox news and was discussed on the air and the reporters minus the lawyer all agreed that Prince should have just kept his mouth shout.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I remember about 20 years ago that “Prince” tried to sue the Prince Spaghetti Company for using his name on their product. Never mind who came first!
Crybaby shrimp.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
If this prince clown is one of their “top artists” then the mpaa is in even deeper shit than I previously thought. And that was a few miles over their heads mind you.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Who is Prince?
Didn’t Lenin just say these words of wisdom: “The art should belong to the people, not to a bunch of ‘rights-holders’”
October 27th, 2007 at 2:00 am
His latest ‘earth’ album was a pile of doo doo anyway. He should be trying to promote his music if he had any kind of business sense.
Then again, most has-been music artists possess inflated egos. Prince is no exception.
October 27th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
And Prince think he is cool may be?
Well he can keep it’s shit for himself!
I am boycotting and in his case I must say that it is easy to avoid his crap!