by William Wallace, Coincidence Theories

Not surprisingly, Van Morrison/Exile production has silenced a global warming critic-at least for the time being.

Yesterday, Minnesotans for Global Warming (M4GW) released two below honey, a parody of the Van Morrison song Tupelo Honey, on youtube.(Wallace 2009) It quickly garnered thousands of views.

But within 1 day of uploading the song, YouTube removed it and replaced it with the disclaimer displayed on the right.

The supreme court case Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (92-1292), 510 U.S. 569 is a 1994 recognizes that parody, even commercial parody, may be fair use.(510 U.S. 569)

The reason this is not surprising is global-warming-mythology-making, evolution-believing, working-toward-the-end-of-private-control-and-ownership-of-property (read: communists) liberal leftists did the same thing recently against the filmmakers of Expelled, a documentary on the lack of academic freedom in biology and science departments at Universities and the Smithsonian.

Yoko Ono sued the makers of Expelled because they used and commented on a snippet of John Lennon's neo-Communist anthem Imagine. The makers of Expelled ultimately prevailed under fair use protections, but most of the liberal leftists at Panda's Thumb were initially giddy over the prospect of silencing Ben Stein's evolutionary heresy, even if shutting it down required duplicitous means.(PvM 2008)

M4GW is not a film studio, so it seems that they will be stuck appealing YouTube's decision through YouTube defined processes.

Sources
    •     Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (92-1292), 510 U.S. 569 (1994)
    •     PvM (April 23, 2008) Yoko Ono sues "Expelled" filmmakers over Imagine PandasThumb
    •     Wallace, William (February 4, 2009) What happened to global warming?  CoincidenceTheories

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