Andre Yoskowitz
7 Nov 2007 18:37
The famous pop musician Prince has continued his crusade against online content by sending legal notices to fan sites demanding that "anything linked to the likeness of" of the artist, including music, lyrics and images, be removed immediately.
Three of the affected sites, housequake.com, prince.org, and princefans.com, have formed a union called "Prince Fans United" in an effort to fight back what they call violations of free speech laws.
This latest news follows the events that occured over the summer when the pop star had all content that contained his name removed from YouTube.
Unfortunately for Prince though, his crusade to remove all content from YouTube has landed him in a lawsuit brought forth by the EFF and the uploader of a video that was removed. The video, a 30 second clip of the uploader's baby daughter dancing to Prince's song "Let's Go Crazy" was taken down and the the uploader and EFF believe "the removal infringed upon her fair use and free speech rights."
Should be interesting to see what happens after this latest attempt by Prince to censor the internet.
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