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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against "psychic" 
Uri Geller after Geller filed a DMCA YouTube takedown notice over a 
video clip that lasted a few seconds:
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9717464-7.html

But there's a second lawsuit afoot. Geller also sued a skeptic over the 
same video, claiming copyright infringement:
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9717780-7.html

I've placed the complaint here:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/uri.geller.copyright.lawsuit.050907.pdf

And the video clip is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo

Here's what the Skeptic's Dictionary says about this "psychic":
http://skepdic.com/geller.html

-Declan

Posted by Declan McCullagh on May 24, 2007 in category intellectual-property

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