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1. YouTube Refuses to Honor DMCA Counter-Notices (Other/Articles)

... the case for one of your videos, and will provide you with contact information for the complainant whenever possible so you can discuss the matter directly. So the user is stuck. Their video could ...

2. YouTube's New Content ID Appeals Process: Not as Useful as You Might Think (Other/Articles)

... process of verifying their account with a cell phone. It is only fair that it should be as easy to appeal a false copyright claim as it is to make one, and that is most certainly not the case on YouTube ...

3. Victory! YouTube Reforms Content ID Dispute Process (Other/Articles)

... who then had the choice to either release their claim or simply reinstate it, in which case the uploader had no further recourse. This of course led to entirely predictable massive abuse by unscrupulous ...

4. Does Content ID abuse infringe copyright? (Other/Articles)

... since in many cases Content ID blocks work very similar to DMCA claims and have the exact same effect. But assuming that Content ID claims are not subject to a suit for misrepresentation under the DMCA, ...

5. SOPA, Private Copyright Enforcement Systems, & Free Speech (Other/Articles)

... apparently does not require copyright claimants to submit any proof that they own the copyright to works which they upload as reference files. There have been numerous reported cases of unscrupulous ...

6. YouTube Copyfraud & Abuse of the Content ID System (Other/Articles)

... inaccurate and incapable of considering the context of the material in question. Many works are outright misidentified. In other cases, the specific work is correctly identified, but matched incorrectly. ...

7. Open Letter to YouTube Regarding Content ID (Other/Articles)

... about whether to file a formal DMCA notification, and remove the content from the site according to the process set forth in the DMCA. In the vast majority of cases I've seen, however, ...

8. Falling Through the Cracks in YouTube's Copyright System (Other/Articles)

... or in selected countries), or in the case of audio-only matches, the sound can be muted. These videos show up on your “My Videos” page as having “matched third party content.” Because this is all done ...

9. Book Review: "Reclaiming Fair Use" by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi (Other/Articles)

... way should only add to the case for fair use in these situations. Personally, I would love to see a more expansive code of best practices for online video that recognizes things like vidding—even where ...

10. DVD Ripping Guide (Guides/DVD Ripping Guide)

... Then click OK. Close the video filters box, and then click the "video" option at the top of the window. Click on frame rate. The program should automatically detect this, but in case it doesn't, for ...

11. New Copyright Rules Allow DRM Circumvention for Remix Videos (Other/Articles)

... many cases it is necessary to be able to make and incorporate high quality film clips in order effectively to engage in such criticism or commentary. In such cases, it will be difficult or impossible to ...

12. Is my parody of another's copyrighted work protected fair use? (FAQs/FAQ Articles)

... mean that all parodies will be protected. In the case of a parody where the defendant raises a fair use defense, the courts will run through the four part fair use analysis just as they would with any ...

13. What types of uses does the fair use doctrine protect? (FAQs/FAQ Articles)

... facts of the individual case. Therefore, it is very difficult to predict with accuracy what a court will do until it engages in the inquiry. A court will almost always use the four factors listed by ...

14. Where is the fair use doctrine codified? (FAQs/FAQ Articles)

Answer: The fair use doctrine was originally a judge-made doctrine embodied in case law. See Folsom v. Marsh, 9 F.Cas. 342 (1841). Congress later codified it at Title 17 of the United States Code, ...

15. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Guides/Guide to YouTube Removals (Updated Nov 2012))

... you still disagree with the copyright claim, you can file a DMCA counter-notice and have your video restored, in which case the copyright claimant will have to actually sue you in order to get the video ...

16. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Guides/Guide to YouTube Removals (Updated Nov 2012))

... on a case-by-case judgment of the facts. Fair use is codified at Section 107 of the Copyright Act, which gives a non-exclusive set of four factors courts will consider in deciding whether a use is ...

17. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Guides/Guide to YouTube Removals (Updated Nov 2012))

... if this is the case with Content ID strikes). Regular copyright strikes result from a DMCA takedown notice being sent against one of your videos. You can also be in "bad standing" from Content ID claims ...

18. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Other/Articles)

... I have been able to find on the subject simply assume they are copyright infringement, in which case American copyright laws have essentially rendered this entire art form presumptively illegal. However, ...

19. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

Carl, you appear to have the same dilemma I did with my memorial video for my son. Both of us had our videos flagged for incorporating a copyrighted song. In my case it was Westlife's I'll See You Again, ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Rita - That kind of personal slideshow where the song is relevant to the material of your slideshow is probably fair use in most cases. You would probably be okay disputing it, though again if it's blocked ...