Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Phoning it in

From FAIFE-L:
Telus Cleanses Image on YouTube
Take-down of pro-union films angers Internet speech advocates
http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/07/02/TelusImage/By Bryan Zandberg Published: July 2, 2007
"Earlier this month, Telus ordered YouTube to take down at least 23 videos posted to the site. Each short movie was potentially embarrassing to the telecom's public image since they documented instances of the company's rocky labour relations. Telus claimed their presence on YouTube, a user-generated website, was an act of copyright infringement.YouTube's owners complied and took the videos off-line, but that set off alarm bells among union activists, who argue much of the footage never belonged to Telus in the first place."

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