Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright's Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment. (Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998‪)‬

I. Introduction The 2008 U.S. Presidential race was a multi-media campaign. The candidates organized volunteers and engaged voters online, their partisans created video clips, and the campaigns themselves used numerous existing and new platforms to share the word and get out the vote. (1) The McCain-Palin campaign reached out to voters by establishing a "channel" on the YouTube platform, (2) posting video clips where viewers could subscribe to the feed.