Ah, so checking my messages (I should do that more often) I see that Franco Corso actually did reach out to me last to request that I remove the video clip myself. His concern, understandably enough, was that is cast him in an unflattering light. He said it was poor quality sound (to which I say "That's nothing compared to having been there in person").

Anyway, it was a friendly enough request until the end of the message where he added the kicker that my video was "not authorized." Running my camera at the fairgrounds and capturing a 29-second fragment of his unfixed performance is hardly a case of bootlegging -- authorization is a non-issue. You wouldn't try to shut down a news crew reporting from a county fair just because a performance was under way -- bloggers have at least as many rights as a news crew.

But hey, that's all lawyer stuff and I charge far too much money to practice law, even on my own behalf.

Frankie was right about one thing: he didn't come across very well in my video. And while that is no excuse for engaging in copyright abuse, I must admit that the only reason I posted the video was to show how lame the event was. An Italian Festival with no zeppole... Disgrazia. Of course he'd need to do some damage control.

So he got YouTube to spike my short video clip: take one step forward on image management. But my original review of the event still stands: take two steps back.