(Credit: tyler4DX/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
It's hard to imagine that, on seeing yesterday's carnage at Daytona when scores of spectators were hurt after debris from a crash flew a fence, someone at Nascar would have been thinking about a vital matter such as copyright infringement.
Yet it seems that one no-doubt harassed Nascar operative did exactly that and demanded that a video taken by a spectator and posted to YouTube be removed.
As the Verge breaks it down, within hours of the crash, Nascar seems to have insisted to YouTube that the video, taken by someone with the handle "tyler4dx", infringed Nascar's rights.
Yet when the Verge asked for a statement, Nascar insisted that, no, no, this was not the case:
The fan video of the wreck on the final lap of today's Nascar Nationwide Series race was blocked on YouTube out of respect for those injured in today's accident. Information on the status of those fans was unclear and the decision was made to err on the side of caution with this very serious incident.
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