• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 01 / 13 / 2011

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Demanding “No more censorship!” and calling for a public campaign against YouTube, official Website Cubadebate said that the company shut down the Cubadebate account, arguing one of the uploaded films infringed on a copyright.

YouTube was bought by Google Inc. in 2006.

According to Cubadebate, it was notified by the technical center of YouTube that its page would be shut down due to a claim of copyright infringement against a video fragment in a film depicting the upcoming trial against suspected terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in the United States.

The clip in question was about a presentation by a Miami-based legal defense fund for Posada, a former CIA asset accused of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, hotel bombings in Cuba in the 1990s that killed one tourist, and a failed bombing attempt against Fidel Castro at a university in Panama. Cubadebate says the clip was edited from a larger film that circulates widely on the Internet. In the clip, the aging Posada announces he expected to be back in Cuba this year to “settle accounts.”

According to Cubadebate, the YouTube account had 1.6 million downloads in three years.

The article says YouTube is “infested” with anti-Castro films using “stolen” footage made by Cubadebate, without any interference by the company, and urges friends to press YouTube to reopen the account.

Source: www.cubastandard.com/2011/01/13/youtube-shuts-down-cuban-account/