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In September 2007, Creation Science Evangelism (CSE), a creationist group founded by Kent Hovind, recently sent a raft of DMCA takedown notices to YouTube complaining that various user-posted videos infringed its copyrights in videos of its seminars. Among those users whose videos were taken down was the Rational Response Squad (RRS), an atheist group.
The videos flagged for removal were all critical of CSE, and some consisted of expression entirely original to the YouTube poster. Other videos used portions of CSE's own videos to make critical commentary about the organization.
RRS created a video -- Open letter to YouTube -- arguing that its videos were protected under fair use.
YouTube also canceled RRS's entire account for a time (the rationale for doing so is not clear), but later reinstated it. As of April 2008, CSE has not taken further action on the matter.