It is unlikely that Disney's suit would have succeeded in court but the defendant didn't have the resources to defend himself there. This is still another case in which copyright is used to offend the fundamental right of freedom of speech. Read the whole sad post.
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Copyright used to silence free speech
In a story you would prefer not to hear, talk radio station KSFO, a subsidiary of Disney and ABC radio, has forced a blogger to take down his site and cease sending audio clips from the programs to station advertisers on the grounds that it violated copyright (link to details on Daily Kos). His offense? He had sent advertisers clips of the talk-show speech which urged murder and torture of political opponents or trashed their products and suggested that they might want to consider pulling their ads on that station. He had some success in getting them to do so but decided to fold.
[Posted at 01/04/2007 06:19 PM by John Bennett on IP in the News 
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