VIACOM IS BEING SUED BY MOVEON.ORG, over its demanding removal of a parody on YouTube. Slashdot has more, and observes: “Couple this with the iFilm fiasco reported earlier, and you have to question how a company like Viacom can cry foul when it can’t even accurately account for its own copyrighted material.”

Reading the original story, it’s not clear who’s in the right, but I like the idea of Big Media companies facing pushback when they try to get things taken down that aren’t clearly infringing. Chilling effects can work both ways . . . .

Here’s more from Ars Technica. And it seems to me that some chilling is in order, as suits over parodies seem to be getting out of hand.