[Infowarrior] - NFL demonstrates DMCA whackyness

[Richard Forno]

Wendy Seltzer, a law professor who used to work for the EFF and who founded
the awesome Chilling Effects clearinghouse for providing an archive of
various takedown notices, has apparently received her very own first DMCA
takedown notice (found via Boing Boing). Seltzer posted a snippet from the
Superbowl for her students to see. Not just any snippet, mind you, but the
snippet where its announced: "This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for
the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or of any
pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent,
is prohibited." She posted it as an example of a copyright holder
exaggerating its rights -- as the NFL cannot ban all of the things they ban
in that statement.

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