The influential conservative website Legal Insurrection had its YouTube channel removed for several hours yesterday.  The company cited "complaints of copyright infrigement" as the reason. The complaints were apparently filed by the Modern Language Association, a far-left academic organization. YouTube took down Legal Insurrection’s Channel without any prior notice based on “multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement,” but we never received any claims of infringement. We have lost hundreds of videos, including a lot of original content on important news subjects. You now will see disabled videos in hundreds of our posts. I have no idea what the supposedly offending videos are. We are pretty careful when it comes to copyright, so I’m suspecting that someone about whom we posted a video made the claims. L.I. proprietor Bill Jacobson sent YouTube sent a brilliant counter-notification, pointing out the...(Read Full Post)