Somebody just can’t handle satire.
PRESS RELEASE
Wednesday, April 21st 2010
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No Cap and Trade Coalition
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Video Spoofing Michael Mann Removed by YouTube – Bogus Reason Given
St. Paul — At a Washington DC press conference yesterday, the No Cap and Trade Coalition announced a new video spoofing prominent ‘climategate’ scientist, Dr. Michael Mann and his infamous ‘hockey stick chart’ showing rapidly increasing global temperatures in recent decades. The video was posted on YouTube until Wednesday afternoon, when the Google-owned video site removed the video, citing non-existent copyright claims by Jib Jab as the reason. The video was produced in response to a cease and desist demand from Michael Mann’s attorney over an older video produced by Minnesotans for Global Warming. The original Hide the Decline video they created used some Jib Jab-provided animation, under their general license and with their expressed written consent, but the new video, recently removed by YouTube contains no such content.
Spokesman for the No Cap and Trade Coalition, Jeff Davis said, “It looks like Dr. Mann has gone into overdrive trying to hide ‘Hide the Decline,’ since the new video was launched and began to spread like wildfire across the internet.” In the span of less than a day, the video had been linked on over 1,000 websites, including News Busters, Junk Science, and the American Spectator. It was going viral fast and the press was calling when YouTube pulled the plug.
According to the No Cap and Trade Coalition, Jib Jab has no rightful claims on the new video, titled ‘Hide the Decline II.’
“They have no basis for this copyright claim. It’s outrageous that they would claim ownership of content we produced, if that’s indeed what’s happened, as YouTube claims in the removal notice,” said Davis.
Although YouTube has decided to stifle the popular new satirical video, it’s still available through other venues and can be viewed at NoCapAndTrade.com.
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Minnesotans for Global Warming (M4GW) uses humor to illustrate the absurdity of anthropogenic global warming fears. Their slogans are “Turn your snow shovels into lawn chairs,” and “Nothing would be green without CO2.” – M4GW.com
The No Cap and Trade Coalition consists of over 40 state and national organizations that are opposed to cap and trade legislation. For more information, see NoCapAndTrade.com
Dan McGrath
Minnesota Majority
http://www.minnesotamajority.org
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The Minnesota Majority have reposted the video at Vimeo and it can be viewed here:
I don’t use Google anymore. I don’t trust them.
Nice to see a little censorship on Lenin’s birthday.
In 1955, then Soviet Premier, Nikita Krushchev ordered April 22nd be designated a day to celebrate Communism. In 1970, it was chosen to be Earth Day by Gaylord Nelson, one of the founders of the event. Those founders had 365 days from which to choose. They chose Lenin’s birthday.
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/earth-day-is-lenins-birthday/blog-301815/
This is why Earth Day is Lenin’s birthday. It is no coincidence. It is a tribute to the ruthless founder of Soviet Communism and his goals are being fulfilled today in the guise of saving the earth from farmers, ranchers, mining, timber, oil, and chemical companies. From “urban sprawl.” In short, any enterprise that seeks to utilize the earth’s enormous bounty to enhance, enrich, and extend the lives of Americans and others worldwide.
It is still up
The large Washington DC-based law firm, Cozen O’conner, which represents Mann in this matter is very active in environmental law, giving seminars across the country on this area. And it has an active section devoted to climate change.
Their 2008 “White Paper” entitled: “The Business of Global Warming: Managing the Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change,” is 38 pages in length.
It features this version of the Hockey Stick as its second graphic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png
On page 5 there is this amazing alarmist summary of the science:
“The IPCC, which has historically underestimated increases in CO2 and the effects of climate change, projects that by 2045, temperatures will have increased by 2°F.10 Such an increase is projected to result in massive flooding due to increased storms and higher sea levels, cause drought and famine impacting billions, increase the range of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, prompt population movements, and likely provoke armed conflict. Much more immediate effects would include eroding coastlines, unprecedented wildfires, more intense hurricanes and tornadoes, and severe hail.”
http://www.cozen.com/admin/files/publications/ClimateChange_WhitePages.pdf
May ve see your papers please?
This link to hide the decline II seems to work.
There is an appeal process (and a pretty simple one at that) for DMCA take-down notices. Section 512 (which provides for take-down notices) also provides for “put-back” notices, in which the person who posts the material basically certifies that the complaint is without merit (thus removing any legal liability from the hosting provider).
IANAL, etc.
Now we see how fragile and incapable of living in a civil society the AGW promoters really are.
Mann and his pals are acting much more like religious fundamentalists who are trying to suppress something mocking creationism than they are acting like scientists.
I wonder how many satires of holy relics were suppressed by the Church back in the day?
Meantime the Arctic is defying the Hockeystick by stubbornly posting excess ice
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
now showing greater ice extent that anytime since 2002. Perhaps Mann should now have his lawyers demand that this site be pulled until Arctic ice complies with The Hockeystick.
Meantime Antarctica is slighty more pliable in that http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_timeseries.png
are showing sea ice extent very slightly below the 1979 – 2000 average.
Certainly there is no sign of a rapid melt in the Arctic as yet as predicted by some participants.
Squidly (04:12:36) :
I don’t use Google anymore. I don’t trust them.
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Reply:
Same here; I use Bing instead. It seems to work better than Google. I want nothing to do with a company that associates with Al Gore.
Hitler reacts to abuse of Fair Use Law by corporations and powerful interests:
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ooops – This great video was posted at Lucia’s Blackboard.
Just be careful if your in the UK as i think Mr Mann is covered by libel laws, I became aware of these when I tried to access news story’s of a Mr Woods and his night time activities but when I tried to view the audio or video on US web sites this was blocked due to UK libel law.
I think my point is don’t’ be surprised if the guys in the US can see the videos but there banned from the UK.
David Walton (22:09:55) :It´s no longer available.
These videos are covered under Fair Use of the First Amendment. They should let Mann sue them–he’d lose.
Fair use includes commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship. Usually the person using the work to comment on doesn’t make money off of it, but parody is different. Even if the creators of the parody made money off of it, it can still qualify as fair use. See Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 U.S. 569 (1994).
There also needs to be market harm; in other words, Mann would need to show that he’s losing money because of Davis’ work.
So I say let Mann sue. Please. I’d love to see his butt handed to him over something so frivolous. Then again, we know he’s a mean-spirited, hot-tempered egomaniac. We shouldn’t be surprised that he’d try to target someone who makes fun of him.
Learn to laugh at yourself, Mike! You’ll live longer!
Sorry should give an example (which i’m sure my friends in the US will appreciate), if you live in the UK try an access the great news reporting site
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/
Sorry the good old libel laws here in the UK stop this high profile news outlet from allow access to us here in blighty.
AdderW (04:10:27) :Two videos ready to download from MEGAUPLOAD.
Thanks, my children demanded a copy of the soundtrack for their phones so I’ve had the soundtrack for a while, finally I can give them the video!
” MartinGAtkins (03:18:10) :
Downfall’ makers want Hitler spoofs removed.
The makers of Downfall are trying to remove video spoofs of Hitler ranting in his bunker from YouTube, reports The Guardian.”
German trademark law (German firm, Constantin film IIRC) requires you to take measures to protect your trademark otherwise you lose it. So they are actually forced to do this if they want to retain the possibility of marketing the film and selling it. In an interview, a representative of the firm said that they feel flattered by the popularity of the parodies but nevertheless need to take them down “to protect the interests of the artists”, IOW their trademark.
Somebody should explain to Mann & Google how this interweb thingy works . . . the more they try to control and regulate the message, the more the message gets known and disseminated.
They are doing fools business, but then who better to play the fool than the grand AGW fool himself, the greasy, slippery Dr. Mann.
Dr. Mann should enjoy what little is left of his ill gotten reputation as a “scientist” . . . it is a straight and slippery slope into the cesspit of academic hell he has made for himself.
Even though others have posted it, the “Hide the Decline II” is also at http://www.junkscience.com.
Hey! Am I the only one to see a resemblance between Michael Mann and Vladimir Lenin?
Mark H.
David Ball (21:58:54) :
Please, kind ladies and/or gentlemen, read “over AT depropagandablog”. Thank you for your time.
Reply: I can not find it can you give a link?
By the way I enjoy your Father’s articles.
You might want to look at The ‘Innocents’ Clubs’ seems the AGW chorusline is just a different version of the same club. While central banker Paul Warburg came to the USA to implement the Central bank called the “Federal Reserve” his brother Max was one of the “The two Germans most responsible for the financing of Lenin” These string pulling banking families have not gone away because the USSR collapsed, they just changed their “stripes” well sort of.
“What unites the many different forms of Socialism.. is the conception that socialism (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) must be handed down to the grateful masses in one form or another, by a ruling elite which is not subject to their control…” http://search.marxists.org/archive/draper/1966/twosouls/0-2souls.htm
Why is it no one can understand big bankers and corporate CEO’s love “socialism” because it allows them to formulate advantageous regulations. In the USA the EPA, USDA, FDA, OSHA are run by the big corporations in such a way that they can squash any upstart competition. I am sure “Cap and Trade” will be used as the ultimate weapon against anyone they want to get rid of while squeezing the last bit of wealth out of the western world.
“Agriculture and monopoly Capital” shows the consolidation of control in the food industry until we now have ten corporation, many privately owned, controlling most of the world’s food supply.
Is there the possibility of a new version of internet which would provide “better” and “improved” characteristics, as when one content is removed it will be completely removed from all the internet, in order not to “poison” the souls of the “good” people all over the world?.
I think, not the Prophet himself, of course, but his faithful employees will invent that new version of internet, so the new society, that liberal and fair society, envisioned by highly esteemed and altruistic bankers as “Open Society” and which is currently enforced through filantropist NGO´s all over the world, causing some irrelevant “casualties” once in a while, and which was conceived in california, in the 1960¨s by the famous writer and new age philosopher Aldous Huxley in his “opera magna” “Brave New World”, while he was testing the blessings of “Soma”(the name he used in his novel for current LSD) and taking with their close friends the also famous, since then, “kool-aid”.
Google must act on any take down request that cites the DMCA by taking the material down.
Also anyone contemplating issuing a take down request had best be prepared to go all the way as a very simple certification process by the original poster of the material will put it right back up.
If I was M4GW Google would already have those certifications.
As long as video memewar is the topic, I just noticed our (U.S.) Cartoon Network is rerunning a Super Hero Squad Show episode titled “The Ice Melt Cometh!” for today’s Pagan Holiday. Flat (“Did I mention the Earth is flat?”) Man and Reptile host a climate conference, and, well… here’s a YouBoob:
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EAvZdA144
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDLGALiRG1k (fun starts at 0:37)
Full episode here, if you can tolerate the 1-time cheesy survey: http://www.superherosquadshow.com/season-1/season-1-episode-22-ice-melt-cometh
Claiming copyright over a work they don’t own copyright to is the worst of all copyright crimes. And going by the amount of money people have had to pay to certain entertainment industry for the mere “crime” of making available, this actual crime ought to cost absurdly.
I wonder if Mann et al can afford it? :p