It’s not clear in the article if this really was a lawyer working for the Air Force or who authorized him to do it. The disturbing part of this is YouTube won’t even check if a video impinges on a copyright. If they get a DMCA notice, they pull it. Next up: politician A sends a phony DMCA notice to take down a negative campaign video from politician B.

Wired put up the video on the article’s page. And here’s an article about the Cyber Command.

Air Force Cyber Command’s New Weapon: DMCA Notices

It’s cyber war! Lawyers representing the Air Force’s elite electronic warriors have sent YouTube a DMCA takedown notice demanding the removal of the 30-second spot the Air Force created to promote its nascent Cyber Command. We’d uploaded the video to share with THREAT LEVEL readers.

How quickly alliances shift in the murky new world of Cyberarmageddon. It was just last month that the Air Force sent us the ad, and thanked THREAT LEVEL for agreeing to run it. The spot shows earnest airmen deftly thwarting a hacker attack on the Pentagon using Minority Report-type touch-and-drag screens. I’m certain hundreds, if not thousands, of geeks have already enlisted as a result of our patriotic shilling for the Air Force.
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But Air Force marketing chief Keith Lebling, who sent us the spot in the first place, says any intellectual property claim should have gone through his office, and none did.

U.S. Government works aren’t even copyrightable. YouTube doesn’t know that — presumably because it has no lawyers — and it’s taken down the video.