On April 23rd the Electronic Frontier Foundation dropped a lawsuit against Viacom for removing MoveOn.org's youtube video that showed clips of the Colbert Report. Viacom promised to be less harsh against people trying to create "creative, newsworthy or transformative" that show copyright material aslong as its for non-commercial purposes. Viacom also agreed to setup a website and email "hotline" that would promise to review any complaint within 1 business day, and could reinstate your account/video(s) if the takedown was in error. But does this protect our freedom of speech, and our right to fairly use copyright material?
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