Action against False Copyright Flagging by CSE (Kent Hovind).

THIS VIDEO IS NOW FOR HISTORICAL PURPOSES ONLY. Most of the videos flagged by CSE were reinstated, and CSE have never again tried to pull flagging as a form of censorship. -The Users Won. Below is the original letter. Dear Sir, I write to inform you of the abuse of copyright claims by cseministry (Creation Science Ministries). cseministry (Creation Science Ministries) have been flagging videos as their copyrighted material even though they contain no material whatsoever from cseministry. cseministry was founded by the young earth creationist and public figure, Kent Hovind who is currently serving a 10 year jail sentence for tax fraud. Videos that cseministry have claimed infringed their copyright include phone calls from various scientists to Kent Hovind, Hovinds phone calls from jails where he conspires to hide property from the IRS and completely original satirical animations of the likeness of the public figure Kent Hovind. cseministry are evidently making abusive use of the copyright claims system by making false claims against videos which reflect badly on cseministry or their founder Kent Hovind. -This is an abuse of the systems that cseministry have been systematically using as a form of 'back door censorship' and needs to be addressed. Further cseministry have made copyright claims on videos they have previously made. Yet cseministry have previously declared that all material produced by their ministry is public domain material (see video below). Public domain material cannot be copyrighted. Indeed it would appear that it is only within the last week that cseministry have changed their website (drdino.com) to falsely claim they have copyright protection on all the material they have previously put in the public domain (see video below), simply so they can falsely flag videos critical of them on youtube. No-one can claim the copyright for public domain material, not even cseministry. And even IF cseministry did own the copyright for any of this material, all of the videos they have flagged as infringing their copyright would fall into the category of fair use.

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Google Video | February 20, 2008

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