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A Pennsylvania woman can go ahead and sue Universal Music Corp. for making YouTube take down a 29-second clip of her baby dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy," according to a judge in San Jose, Calif. The judge said that Universal, which controls the publishing rights to the Purple One's catalog, needs to decide whether or not the snippet fell under the "fair use" guidelines, although given the company's past history of negotiating with the Internet I'm going to guess their stance is "the only fair use is use that involves paying us." [AP]

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Don't Be Surprised If This Kid's First Words Are "Fair Use"


Note to any parents in the audience: If you're going to post a clip of your baby adorably dancing on YouTube, don't use music with publishing rights owned by Universal Music Publishing Group. Even if you use less than 30 seconds of said song—as the mom who shot the above video of her baby bopping around while Prince's Super Bowl performance played in the background did—a copyright claim will be filed by the company, and YouTube will cave: More »