One Democrat operative in particular, Mudflatulence blogger Jeanne Devon (AK Muckraker) has scared various sites which at one time or another were hosting the video into taking it down by claiming that she owns several of the images used in the video and implying that refusal to remove it constituted copyright infringement.
But though Devon's veiled threats worked for a while, more and more webmasters are being made aware that they can legally host the video, according to the Fair Use clause of the Copyright Law of 1976, which allows for the rebroadcast of copyrighted works for the purpose of education, commentary, and criticism.
Bob Parks, who blogs at Black & Right, is one of those who refuses to let The Muckmaker push him around:
"Sarah Palin has been the target of the left from the very day she walked onto the public stage, and their venom continues on. The problem is, they don’t like being exposed, and now that they’ve been, they’re crying foul and one of the whiners has brought her issues to my door (via email)..."Of Devon's e-mail, Parks says, "I guess that’s supposed to impress me":
"While Ms. Devon feels she may have been violated, I think the only violation is that these malicious liberal thugs got caught, have been publicly outed, and are justifiably paranoid of potential legal trouble from Mrs. Palin."And for punctuation, Parks put the video up on his blog. A tip of the Texas for Sarah Palin Stetson to Bob Parks. You, sir, are a steely-eyed missile man.
Speaking of the video...
In our opinion, every right of center blogger should embed this video and keep bumping it to the top until the state-controlled media are forced to report this story.
- JP
