Fair Use: Gamers battle New Zealand TV over biased Tarot interview

[Tarot_Is_A_Card_Game!]

CTV Canterbury New Zealand ran some interviews with a self styled "spiritual life coach" Phyllis Brown on some new agey type topics. This series of interviews appear designed to promote Phyllis Brown's spiritual services. One particular video concerning Tarot cards received some very critical comments because of Brown's distortions of history. CTV deleted these critical comments from that video and disabled comments. There were also some videos made by critics using portions of this interview and these were flagged by CTV under copyright grounds. I believe these uploads are protected by "Fair Use" under US copyright laws as well as "Fair Dealing" under New Zealand laws. I should also note that CTV has recently removed that Phyllis Brown Tarot video from their YouTube channel probably because of the headaches it appears to have caused them.

I'm interested in the opinions of some fellow JREF members on this matter.

Here are examples of the critical videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlmT3WMc9VI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbSf1-dPdd0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-5rZzFzQw

The websites of the CTV station
http://www.ctv.co.nz/
http://www.youtube.com/user/CTVinNZ

 

[blue sock monkey]

Not exactly subtle, are they?

It's great to see YouTubes being used for skepticism, in bite-sized, easily digested clips. Especially that first example, where oudler provides a citation to an authority on the history of cards.

Shame on CTV Canterbury indeed!

 

[Frying Dutchmen]

I didn't know Tarot was a card game... I guest it's true you do learn something new everyday. Oh and I love the overboard on the censorship.