Copyright claim aimed at McCain video
p2pnet news view | Politics:- John McCain sounds a lot like his friend, George W. Bush, which might have a decidedly (subjective) negatively effect on potential US voters. But that aside, he and his advisors seem to be only just catching on to the vitally important fact that in this is the digital age, the Net is the way to reach the people.
He, “said, ruefully, that he had not mastered how to use the Internet and relied on his wife and aides like Mark Salter, a senior adviser, and Brooke Buchanan, his press secretary, to get him online to read newspapers (though he prefers reading those the old-fashioned way) and political Web sites and blogs,” said the New York Times on July 13.
“They go on for me,” it has him a stating. “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.”
Asked which blogs he read, he said: “Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously. Everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics.”
Does everybody watch Drudge?
Then on July 22, “John McCain may be the object of scorn among the denizens of the internet for his self-professed computer illiteracy – but it’s his campaign that’s probably having the last laugh Tuesday, after launching a brilliant new fundraising drive online,” said Wired on July 22.
“The campaign unveiled two versions of a new online ad that’s a nearly three-minute video mash-up. It pulls together footage that documents the media’s professed adoration of Barack Obama and presents a couple of versions that are played against a backdrop of two different tunes.”
John McCain, it seems, “has decided to re-run Hillary Clinton’s ultimately failed campaign against Barack Obama,” said Britain’s prestigious Financial Times, going on New York magazine writer John Heilemann had, “spotted signs that the rightwing former prisoner of war was modelling himself on the left-of-centre ex-first lady a fortnight ago.
Both were, “served by feuding and leaking staffers, both were tempted into populist gambits such as supporting a summer petrol tax holiday and both were betting their record of experience could trump Mr Obama’s promise of change.”
But, “the parallels became overwhelming this week when Mr Obama’s triumphant tour of the Middle East and Europe goaded the McCain team into blaming it all on the favourite culprit of the waning days of Mrs Clinton’s campaign: the media and its alleged love affair with Mr Obama. The Clinton camp’s accusations got a boost from a Saturday Night Live sketch satirising the supposedly solicitous treatment Mr Obama received from television debate moderators; Mr McCain’s operation went one better, creating its own satirical video of Obamaphile pundits, called Obama-love, and posting it on YouTube.
“It is a funny clip and Mr McCain’s staff get extra points for using YouTube to disseminate it, particularly given their boss’s recent admission that he does not use e-mail.”
Way to go McCain!
But maybe not.
It was “zapped from the campaign’s YouTube channel,” says Wired, continuing »»»
It’s not clear why the video was deleted, but there’s a good chance that the campaign’s use of Frankie Valli’s hit tune Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You had something to do with it. Licensing such hits is expensive, and the tune is frequently used in television commercials.
There were two versions of the video, and both appear to have been taken down. Viewers voting for their preferences for the two videos generally preferred the one accompanied by the Valli tune.
The McCain campaign did not return a call or an e-mail for an explanation.
Them in an update, “The Warner Music Group asserted its copyright claim against YouTube, which is the reason for the take-down,” says the story, adding »»»
“McCain’s campaign has re-posted the video, sans Warner’s intellectual property. It’s ironic that a United States senator, who has been part of a body that has so repudiated the idea of fair-use, is feeling the repeated stings resulting from its own legislative history.”
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.Stumble It!
New York Times -McCain’s Conservative Model? Roosevelt (Theodore, That Is), July 13, 2008
Wired -McCain Campaign Yanks ‘Obama Love’ Web Video, July 25, 2008
Financial Times -How Obama-love could hurt the thing it cherishes most, July 26, 2008
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July 28th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Eat your ***** now, McCain.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:22 am
“the rightwing former prisoner of war”
Why not the “former bomber of the (innocent) vietnamese people”?
Which brings us the the question: Was McCain not a hero but a war criminal?