Uri Geller Sued by the EFF

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Yes, that Uri Geller, the one who purports to be able to bend spoons and other silverware, has been sued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). And why? It’s over YouTube clips, but not for the reason you might think.

He didn’t post something. Rather, he had something taken down, and the EFF says he did so using “baseless copyright claims”, simply to remove a YouTube clip which was critical of him.

The foundation filed suit Tuesday, just one day Geller and his company, Explorogist Ltd., sued a critic of the psychic who had posted a 13-minute video on YouTube. Geller’s suit, filed in federal court in Philadelphia, claims that the video posted by Brian Sapient had a three-second excerpt of copyrighted material. YouTube took down the video after complaints by Geller.

But the foundation said that the excerpt of only three to 10 seconds should legally be considered fair use. Source: SFGate

We Say: Honestly, if Geller is as psychic as he says (yeah, yeah, you all knew I would say this), couldn’t he see this coming?