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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)

... claimant has absolutely no copyright interest in. And because copyright claimants are allowed to decide whether to accept or reject disputes against their own claims, there is no effective way to dispute ...

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

... is not. While YouTube maintains a nominal mechanism for “disputing” false or mistaken Content ID matches, this dispute system is a joke. This is because the person who gets to decide whether to accept ...

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

Update October 4, 2012: YouTube has revised the Content ID dispute process to address many of the concerns expressed in this article. Specifically they have added a new appeals process which users can ...

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

... copyright reasons with literally no recourse for the user and no way to dispute the copyright block. Contrary to YouTube's stated policy of requiring copyright owners to escalate to a DMCA notice to ...

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

... with literally no recourse for the user and no way to dispute the copyright block. YouTube’s copyright policies are confusing enough to begin with, as unlike most other video sharing sites, YouTube ...

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

... pointers about fair use and the YouTube copyright dispute process (without crossing the line into giving legal advice of course). From my experience, most YouTube users know virtually nothing about ...

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

Step 3: Dispute the Copyright Notification Once that you have determined that your video is in fact fair use, in order to get it restored you will need to dispute the copyright notice. This will be done ...

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

... disputing the content ID match. The copyright claimant is then given the chance to "confirm" or "reinstate" their claim, which you can then appeal using a second dispute process. If the copyright claimant ...

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

... the YouTube Content ID system in the past because of the whole Warner Music debacle, I immediately disputed the copyright claim with the following statement: The use of video footage in this video ...

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

... spent the last four years acquiring a thorough knowledge of copyright law, I was pretty sure I could successfully defend my video as a fair use of Warner’s content. So I immediatly disputed the copyright ...

14. About This Site ('Uncategorised Content')

... first-hand in early 2009 when YouTube blocked all videos using music from Warner Music Group during a licensing dispute. After successfully disputing copyright blocks on his own videos by arguing that ...

15. 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 ...

16. Home Page ('Uncategorised Content')

Latest News October 4, 2012: Victory! A little over one year after I began campaigning to raise awareness of the fatal flaws in YouTube's Content ID dispute process, YouTube has announced ...

17. Guide to YouTube Removals (Updated Nov 2012) (Category)

... non-infringing. If you believe your video is fair use or you are otherwise authorized to use the content at issue, take the appropriate action to dispute the removal--either by disputing an automated ...

18. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... on how they interrelate. As far as I know, the only ways to get features back that are disabled by a global content ID block are either to dispute the content ID claim or delete the video. For DMCA strikes, ...

19. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... disappear after the 6 months? And second question is: If my video got blocked world wide, and this caused some of my features to be blocked on my account, and a dispute of this will be rejected or just ...

20. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

Hi just wondering if some one can help me, at the moment i'm racking my brain to find out if i can dispute my video. I have posted a link http://youtu.be/oj1AjDw-594 if someone could give me any advice ...