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SHARK v. PRCA
LEGAL CASE
SHARK v. PRCA
EFF asked a federal court to protect the free speech rights of an animal welfare group after its video critiques of animal treatment at rodeos were removed from YouTube due to sham copyright claims.
The group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) is a non-profit organization that videotapes and photographs rodeos in order to expose animal abuse, injuries, and deaths. SHARK posted more than two dozen videos to YouTube to publicize this animal mistreatment. But the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) filed takedown demands for 13 of the videos under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), claiming the videos infringed their copyrights. YouTube consequently removed the videos and canceled SHARK's entire YouTube account, even though the PRCA has no copyright claim in live rodeo events.
The case was settled in February of 2009, protecting the advocates' right to publicize their critiques and creating a new model for handling takedown notices.
Updates
Press Release
| February 12, 2009
Animal Welfare Advocates Settle Online Video Battle With Cowboy Group
Meritless Copyright Claims Won't Interfere With YouTube Rodeo Critiques
For Immediate Release: Thursday, February 12, 2009
San Francisco - Animal welfare advocates and the world's largest rodeo-sanctioning organization have settled their copyright battle over YouTube videos, protecting...
●Read more about Animal Welfare Advocates Settle Online Video Battle With Cowboy Group
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| August 25, 2008
Coauthored by ACLU of Northern California Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director Nicole A. OzerOn blogs, personal and political websites, and through user generated content sites, ordinary citizens in extraordinary numbers are recreating a public sphere and reinvigorating the democratic debate at the core of our political system. 46% of...
●Read more about EFF and ACLU of Northern California to ISPs and Content Owners: Do Your Part to Protect Political Speech
Press Release
| June 9, 2008
Chicago - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a federal court today to protect the free speech rights of an animal welfare group after its video critiques of animal treatment at rodeos were removed from YouTube due to sham copyright claims.
The group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK)...
●Read more about Animal Welfare Group Battles Online Censorship of Rodeo Videos
Legal Documents
February 12, 2009
Joint stipulation requesting dismissal
February 5, 2009
Settlement
June 9, 2008
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