{"id":795,"date":"2008-07-10T17:34:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/07\/hagees-attorneys-succeed-in-re.php"},"modified":"2008-07-10T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T17:34:30","slug":"hagees-attorneys-succeed-in-re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/07\/hagees-attorneys-succeed-in-re","title":{"rendered":"Hagee&#8217;s Attorneys Succeed in Removing YouTube Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adelle M. Banks<br \/>\nReligion News Service<br \/>\nTexas megachurch pastor John Hagee has successfully worked with copyright lawyers to get more than 120 videos featuring him removed from YouTube.<br \/>\nThe development was reported by The Huffington Post, whose blogger Max Blumenthal discovered that a video he had made at Hagee&#8217;s Christians United for Israel conference last year was among those removed from the popular video Web site.<br \/>\nJuda Engelmayer, a spokesman for Hagee, confirmed that the videos had been removed.<br \/>\n&#8220;They were anything that contained clips of sermons, clips of activities happening at CUFI or John Hagee Ministries events,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nHagee is the outspoken pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio.<br \/>\nAfter his controversial comments about the Holocaust and Catholics were carried on the Internet, Sen. John McCain rejected Hagee&#8217;s endorsement of his presidential race.<br \/>\nBlumenthal criticized the move as &#8220;a naked exercise in news suppression.&#8221; Engelmayer would not respond directly to the comments of Huffington Post writers but said the removal of videos followed particular criteria.<br \/>\n&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t done on a targeted basis,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was done strictly on a formulaic basis of whether it fit certain criteria.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said the removal was not timed to the upcoming annual summit of Christians United for Israel, July 21-24 in Washington.<br \/>\nRather, he said Hagee&#8217;s daughter read a story about a studio that had successfully challenged YouTube and had material removed, sparking the work by lawyers several months ago.<br \/>\nBlumenthal wrote in a Huffington Post blog that his &#8220;Rapture Ready&#8221; mini-documentary &#8220;contained no copyrighted material whatsoever.&#8221;<br \/>\nAsked about that complaint, Engelmayer said, &#8220;I have not studied the video, so I can&#8217;t speak to his video at all.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2008 Religion News Service.  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