For some years, I was a paying member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). I still have the T-Shirts and hats, really. As a digital content provider I wanted to ensure corporate nuts were not stepping on smaller content developers or even ordinary people unjustly. In time the EFF seemed to start morphing into a digitized version of the ACLU, at which point I stopped being a member and made no future donations to the organization. It all happened years ago, I’m not bothering to gather exact dates. Anyway, I was happy to see the EFF stand up for a Conservative leaning group.

HotAir.com post: Victory: UMG & YouTube retreat More coverage at Michelle Malkin’s personal blog.

This shows that you who had videos removed by Benny Hinn or Robert Tilton might have a chance at winning if you have a just cause to fight back. Both Hinn and Tilton are ticked that we Christians who abhor abuse of the faith were exposing their lies via YouTube!

Under Fair Use guidelines, you can use otherwise copyright protected material for a number of purposes.

I had been mulling the fact that Benny Hinn trampled Fair Use in many cases with some (possibly all) of the material he had removed from YouTube. I know almost all (maybe all) of the material of Robert Tilton posted and much (maybe all) posted of Benny was either parody or educational in nature. I know I posted one of Benny for educational and comment purposes. These vipers men who claim to be ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ are trying to prevent videos of their own swindling words and actions from being freely distributed. Both Hinn and Tilton work as non-profits, but when they see their material on YouTube, they act as if they are corporations defending a brand from dilution.

I might try and see if I can get the EFF to work with me. I suggest anyone who thinks they have a reason to fight back on the grounds of Fair Use, take action now. I know some folks had little or no actual footage of Hinn in some video that was removed. You folks could probably file a counter against your videos being removed pretty easily. Plus, many of the videos removed were short and YouTube limits things to 10 minutes for most of us, so in comparison with the full supposed sermons those clips on YouTube were nothing.