(Jerusalem Post) Noah Rayman - The parody video "We Con the World," which mocked the international media coverage of the Gaza flotilla, has been removed from YouTube, where it received over 3 million views since it went up on June 3. YouTube posted a comment on Friday citing copyright infringement concerns over the rights to the 1985 charity fundraiser song "We Are the World." Caroline Glick, editor-in-chief of the satirical Web site Latma TV which produced the video, said "Copyright experts we advised with before posting the song told us in no uncertain terms that we were within our rights to use the song because we did so in accordance with the Fair Use Doctrine," an American copyright law that supports use of copyrighted material for satire. Other parodies of the song "We Are the World" are still available on YouTube, including a parody of President Obama.
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