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

... appeals process, the YouTube help page on the appeals process includes the following caveat: Additional eligibility restrictions may apply, including the date of dispute and other factors. Uploaders ...

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

... factors. Uploaders will also be asked to verify their account if they have not already done so. The eligibility for the appeals process may change over time. It will be interesting to see exactly ...

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

... they have any merit or not. The major music labels and publishers have been quite open about the fact that their status as Content ID partners gives them the ability to censor any YouTube video they ...

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

...  right to infringe someone’s copyright.” Or “copyright and free speech do not conflict.” Leaving aside the obvious fact that the Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that there IS in fact a first amendment ...

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

... ID" copyright filtering system, the potential has existed for tremendous abuse. Over the last couple years, evidence has been mounting that YouTube's Content ID system is in fact being systematically used ...

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

... claimants to escalate to a DMCA claim after a Content ID dispute has been filed; or else be honest with users and tell them that there is in fact no effective means to dispute a Content ID block. Just ...

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

... Add to this the fact that YouTube’s dual systems of copyright enforcement (both the automated Content ID system and the DMCA takedown process) are hopelessly confusing and leaves gaps in which videos ...

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

... setting of Bilinear should be fine, though the other two settings will produce sharper results at the cost of longer rendering time and more video artifacts. Incidentally, if you want to upscale your footage ...

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

... will focus on the fourth factor of the inquiry, which requires the court to ask what effect the parody has on the potential market for the copyrighted work. If the parody usurps the market for the copyrighted ...

10. 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 ...

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

...  work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include ? 1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

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

... blocks all uses of copyrighted content indiscriminately, there is a high chance it will block material that is in fact "fair use" under U.S. copyright law, and you can easily get your video restored by ...

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

... legal argument that Square Enix is abusing the DMCA takedown process by making bad-faith copyright claims. Specifically the timing of the notices and the fact that the DMCA takedown notice came less ...

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

Anyone who knows me probably knows I like studying issues related to copyright law–a fascination driven by the fact that as a child of the Net Generation, I have grown up immersed in what Lawrence ...

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

... (3) was of sufficiently low quality that it could not reasonably compete with the original work, and (4) could have no possible negative effect on the market for the original song, but would in fact ...

18. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... And I am using this iconic scene just like 25 other YouTuber's have to get the point across about choosing between truth or deception. In fact the 45 seconds of video for the three 15 sec or so segments ...

19. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Patrick am most encouraged by what read in Here is a resource you should read: http://www.cmsimpact.org/journalism and like fact that document is endorsed by many media orgs. If it fits here is the part ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Thanks Patrick. The presentation we use a good section of the song (in fact nearly all) and will be used internally for an organisation only. It will not be seen by anyone outside the organisation. I would ...