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Monday
Aug272007

HAS YouTube Pulled Your Bynum or Weeks Clips?? FIGHT BACK!

FIGHT 'EM on it. Contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Juanita Bynum and her husband are public figures. Video related to sermons they may have preached or even portions of other preachers commenting on the Bynum incident in a public place ( IE THE PULPIT THIS PAST SUNDAY) Probably fall within the realm of what is called "fair use."

If YouTube pulled your clip, you can respond and try to have it put back up. TBN, Eddie Long, Juanita and Tommy "The Hit Man" Weeks may control their churches, but on the internet nobody can muzzle a story. You should have known the "church folk" would be trying to keep stuff under the wraps. Give it up already! What is done in the dark will surely come to light.

Whether you are quoting someone on your blog, inserting clips of CNN into your own video news report, or using a song sample in a musical parody, your free speech often depends on incorporating and referencing other people's creations as part of your own. The courts call this "fair use", and strong legal precedents exist to protect the limited use of copyrighted material in your work when you do so for expressive purposes.

Unfortunately, copyright owners often object to these uses, and may look for ways to take them offline via the legal system. A copyright cease-and-desist letter to your webhost or ISP may be all it takes to make your online speech disappear from the Internet — even when the legal claims are transparently bogus. Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Do these church folk really want to start a "holy war" with bloggers? Trying to hide your dirt, just makes it worse. I actually was going to stop posting about Juanita Bynum today, but this campaign to erase YouTube clips is noteworthy and affects us all. Somebody had better start saving these clips to hard drives before they are all gone. There is definitely an organized campaign at work to hide video. SMH?



Reader Comments (3)

I saw this. You are so right! Are experiencing the penecostal version of the Da Vinci Code?!

Talk to you in a few.

If you are a celebrity - even a Christian celebrity. You can't have it both ways.

August 27, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterContent Black Woman

A friend of mine has friends in CA that attend a Global Destiny church there. On Thursday night the pastor told them that they should not believe the news media and that they were back together. The pastor actually out and out lied to the people about this. It's one thing to pull video, which I think is cowardedly considering that they made their mark by becoming famous. However to lie to cover up a leader is a heinous example of Christianity.

I am not near one of the Global Destiny ministries. After this I probably will not be seen near one, that is, if they continue. We'll see how long the support for Thomas Weeks continues. Their foundation is sand.

August 27, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterPamela

I'm not sure this will get printed since it is not directly associated with the problem at hand. I just read statements made by Juanita Bynum at one of her recent meetings. I was totally blown away about telling her audience how she met a lady in the mall, that asked if she was ok. The answer Juanita gave made me sick to my stomach, and she had the audacity to brag about how mean she was to this lady in the mall who was only concerned about her well being. I have followed Juanita's work for a long time, but this was a turn off and to think that her audience would actually amen her!!! So now we have Miss I need bodyguards juanita dissing people who prayed for her, and an ex-husband who teaches we should cuss in the bedroom. If Juanita felt a need to let go, she should have done so when she sat on the front row as Weeks told the audience and all who watched the tape, that we have issues and we need to say naughty things in the bedroom. That would have been the time to let the world know that she is a server of God, and not by bashing someone who loved and prayed for her while her cussin husband beat her down. Somehow it seems that being a celebrity minister so often turns from God, to looks, prosperity, showism, movies, etc. What has become of our love for Christ when a well know worker of Christ brags about having seven homes, to asking people to send the ministry their little grocery money. What can we do except pray, stay true to the One who holds our future and not be blinded by the ones who use Our Father's name for enrichment and not eternal security and peace with the One who truly love and cares for His own.

September 29, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterGsharon710

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