Like many 18 months old children, Holden Lenz loves to dance. Eager to share her son's dancing skills with far flung relatives, Holden's mom uploaded a video of the little guy bopping away to YouTube. Faintly, off in the distance, in the background of the video, you can faintly make out a less than 30 second snippet of the Prince hit Let's Go Crazy. Crazy is indeed what Prince went when he got wind of this video. Incensed that his song was audible in the background of this family video, that had been viewed by a grand total of 28 family members and friends, Prince instructed Universal Music Publishing Group, his publishers, to file a request with YouTube that the video be removed and Stephanie Lenz be warned about copyright infringement.
Not so fast, said Lenz. She decided to file a counter complaint against Universal and got her video back up on YouTube. She also decided to file a civil lawsuit against Universal Music Publishing, charging them with abusing copyright law. Backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lenz in seeking damages from Universal and demanding they admit their error is designating her a copyright violator.
The court case has yet to be decided, but there already is one clear loser - Prince. Word has it that it was Prince himself who found the video and urged Universal to act. The notion of Prince trolling the net looking for his songs and deciding to go after a housewife and an 18 month old child for a family movie in which his song is BARELY audible does not sit well with many fans. A clear winner? Holden Lenz. Since Prince decided to make a big stink about this video, Holden has become a bona fide star. The video that had only been viewed by 28 people before Prince came on the scene has now been viewed well over a 100,000 times, and counting.
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Not so fast, said Lenz. She decided to file a counter complaint against Universal and got her video back up on YouTube. She also decided to file a civil lawsuit against Universal Music Publishing, charging them with abusing copyright law. Backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lenz in seeking damages from Universal and demanding they admit their error is designating her a copyright violator.
The court case has yet to be decided, but there already is one clear loser - Prince. Word has it that it was Prince himself who found the video and urged Universal to act. The notion of Prince trolling the net looking for his songs and deciding to go after a housewife and an 18 month old child for a family movie in which his song is BARELY audible does not sit well with many fans. A clear winner? Holden Lenz. Since Prince decided to make a big stink about this video, Holden has become a bona fide star. The video that had only been viewed by 28 people before Prince came on the scene has now been viewed well over a 100,000 times, and counting.
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