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

Last October, YouTube announced some much needed reforms to its Content ID copyright dispute process. Bowing to growing public pressure, YouTube ended the practice of allowing copyright claimants to unilaterally ...

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

Last month YouTube announced a new process for appealing reinstated Content ID claims that was supposed to solve the problem of copyright owners being made the ultimate judge of disputes against their ...

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

In a blog post yesterday, YouTube announced a new appeals process for Content ID disputes, which should put an end to copyright claimants acting as judges of their own claims and once again give users ...

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

... the same basic effect as the DMCA notice-and-takedown process but none of its safeguards. I have been developing a theory that the deliberate misuse of such private copyright systems to claim content you ...

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

... and free speech can be clearly seen when copyright laws are abused and used to censor speech that does not infringe anyone’s copyright. While the pro-copyright lobby may claim otherwise, the truth is ...

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

... use after a Content ID claim has been reinstated by the claimant. This then forces the copyright claimant to either release the Content ID claim or file a DMCA takedown notice, and the user can then file ...

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

... get a video removed after the user files a Content ID dispute, YouTube is now allowing copyright owners to "confirm" their claim against your video, after which the video is permanently blocked with no ...

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

... to be terminated upon the third strike. If your video makes fair use of the copyrighted content in question or the claim is false, you can file a DMCA counter-notification (also specified by law), and ...

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

... She graciously offered to send me a copy of the new book she recently coauthored with Peter Jaszi, called Reclaiming Fair Use. I have spent the last few days reading the book while on vacation in Washington ...

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

...  Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 US 569 (1994). Courts have held that the fair use defense can protect a parody of a copyrighted work from an infringement claim. However, that does not necessarily ...

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

... See Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp. v. Crooks, 542 F.Supp. 1156 (W.D.N.Y.1982). In considering a fair use defense to a claim of infringement, a court will focus its inquiry on the specific ...

12. What is fair use? (FAQs/FAQ Articles)

Answer: Fair use is an affirmative defense that can be raised by an individual who is sued for copyright infringement (or an individual against whom a claim of copyright infringement is alleged). See ...

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

... do anything, so it doesn't matter if you click it or not. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click the link that says "I believe this copyright claim is not valid." From the list of reasons, ...

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

... nature, low possibility of harming the market for the original, and impossibility of licensing. Political parodies/satires are also likely to be protected against copyright claims by the higher first-amendment ...

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

... three categories: community guidelines, copyright strikes, and Content ID claims. After three "strikes" under any of these categories,your account may be terminated (though I have been unable to verify ...

16. My Experiences with the DMCA on YouTube (Other/Articles)

... it because of a copyright claim by Square Enix Co., Ltd., the Japanese video game company that makes the Final Fantasy series.  Just as I have done each time one of my videos has been blocked by ...

17. It Pays to Know your Rights under Copyright Law (Other/Articles)

... now mad at Warner, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been urging people whose videos are unjustly pulled from YouTube to fight it by disputing the automatic takedowns with fair use counterlclaims, ...

18. About This Site ('Uncategorised Content')

... outside of Colorado. Should litigation result from any action you may take in disputing copyright claims online, you would need to retain an attorney licensed in the jurisdiction in question. Bio ...

19. Video Tutorials ('Uncategorised Content')

See below for video tutorials on how to dispute copyright notices on YouTube. More videos coming soon. 1. How to Dispute Content ID Claims (Updated Nov 2012) -9PSaTv-Mb0 2. How to Appeal Reinstated ...

20. Home Page ('Uncategorised Content')

... some much needed reforms, including a new appeals process which will put an end to copyright claimants acting as the ultimate judge of their own false claims. Both Ars Technica and Extreme Tech have published ...