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IOC orders blogger to take down video

The International Olympic Committee has ordered a blogger to remove a video showing the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili from his website. It's a copyright defense, but the blogger argues: (1) the footage is newsworthy in general; (2) the footage is potentially evidence of negligence, and it is the putatively negligent people who are trying to suppress that evidence with a copyright claim.

It seems to me that Canadian law and public sentiment are in the blogger's favor, but I haven't seen those issues analyzed systematically by experts.

Here's the disputed blog post.