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

... record for purposes of critical commentary and review, the video almost certainly qualifies as a textbook example of fair use. Nevertheless, UMG had the video taken down with a DMCA notice. Believing his ...

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

... appears that is exactly what has happened. Techdirt now has the story of YouTube user (and fellow copyright reform activist) Julian Sanchez, who two years ago uploaded a video about fair use and remix ...

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)

... on YouTube--all this despite every instance of that video being clear fair use. While it is clear Content ID is being abused, it is less clear whether such abuse has any legal consequences. In its dispute ...

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

... right to make unauthorized use of copyrighted material under the fair use doctrine, the idea that copyright and free speech do not conflict is demonstrably false. At its heart, copyright law is ...

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

... to falsely claim and monetize videos the claimant has no right to, and to block videos with no recourse for the user, even if they are likely fair use. All of this is done with YouTube's direct knowledge ...

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

... claims to some or all of its content." Here is how YouTube claims the Content ID dispute process works. According to this post on YouTube's official blog from April, 2010, http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/04/content-id-and-fair-use.html: ...

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)

... in copyright law for “fair use” and portrayed fair use as being too complicated for ordinary YouTube users to understand. Public Knowledge challenged the online video community to create a video presenting ...

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

DVD Ripping and Decryption Guide: A FairUseTube Primer In a welcome ruling to vidders and amateur remixers everywhere, the Library of Congress recently made an exception to the prohibition in the DMCA ...

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

... a program such as DVD Decrypter to rip DVDs to their computer so they can use the footage in their video. Before the passage of this rule, even if the actual use of the footage in a video was fair ...

12. Fair Use FAQs (Other/Other)

Below is a selection of FAQs from ChillingEffects.org, which give some basic information about the fair use doctrine and could be useful for online video creators. Please visit the ChillingEffects site ...

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

Answer: It is likely that a bona fide parody, as opposed to satire, that does not usurp the market for plaintiff's work or unfairly free ride on plaintiff's work will be protected as a fair use. See ...

14. Do I need permission from the copyright holder to make fair use? (FAQs/FAQ Articles)

Answer: No. If your use is fair, it is not an infringement of copyright -- even if it is without the authorization of the copyright holder. Indeed, fair use is especially important to protect uses a ...

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

...  under fair use. However, this list is non-exhaustive, and therefore a use not covered in one of the categories could nonetheless be successfully defended as a fair use. Conversely, not every use that ...

16. 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, ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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 ...

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

Step 2: Decide if your video is fair use If your video was blocked for copyright reasons, either by an automated Content ID match or by a DMCA notice, you will have to decide if your video falls under ...

20. 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 ...