"On September 14, 2007, Prince announced that he was going to sue
YouTube and eBay because they "appear to choose not to filter out the
unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business
success." A representative told Reuters, "The problem is that one can
reduce it to zero and then the next day there will be 100 or 500 or
whatever. This carries on ad nauseam at Prince's expense."
On November 5, 2007, several fan sites of Prince formed Prince Fans
United to fight back against legal requests made by Prince to cease
and desist all use of photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and
anything linked to Prince's likeness. While Prince's lawyers claimed
that the use of such representations constituted copyright
infringement, the Prince Fans United claimed that the legal actions
were "attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince." On
November 8, 2007, Prince Fans United received a song named "PFUnk"
providing a kind of "unofficial answer" to their movement. The song,
originally debuted on the PFU main site[36], was retitled "F.U.N.K.,"
and is available on iTunes.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit against Prince's
music company because he demanded that YouTube remove a video of a 13-
month-old boy bouncing and swaying for the camera as 29-seconds of
"Let's Go Crazy" plays on a CD player in the background. The video is
a home movie shot by the child's mother in the family's rural
Pennsylvania kitchen.[citation needed]
At the 2008 Coachella Music Festival, Prince performed a cover of
Radiohead's Creep but immediately after he forced YouTube and other
sites to remove footage that fans had taken of the performance. Thom
Yorke of Radiohead, upon hearing about the removal of the video, asked
Prince to unblock the song stating "Well, tell him to unblock it. It's
our ... song."
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