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Monday, August 4, 2008

And for My Next Trick, I’ll Turn Myself Into a Complete Jackass

If you’re going to demand that YouTube remove a video to which you object under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it’s probably wise to make sure that you actually understand the DMCA. Wiser still to make sure that you actually hold the copyright to the video in question. Uri Geller, the purported spoon-bending psychic, apparently did neither when he sent a DMCA take-down notice to YouTube demanding that it remove a clip debunking his “supernatural” abilities.

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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