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

... filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to keep it offline. No longer. YouTube refuses to honor counter-notices for “contractual reasons” For months I have been trying to discover why many users have ...

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

... some videos and not others, and the requirement to "verify" your YouTube account with a text message sent to a cell phone before you can file an appeal. As I noted in my initial post about the new ...

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

... claimant must then file a formal DMCA takedown notice (with its attendant legal penalties for misuse) if they insist on taking the video down. However, sometime after YouTube made that blog post, things ...

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

... in existence, from Google to YouTube to Facebook to file hosting sites like Megaupload and Rapidshare (the ostensible targets of SOPA) currently respond to takedown notices under the DMCA. But the “voluntary” ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

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

... copy-protection* (called CSS) and rips the DVD to your computer as a single VOB file. Because of the vaugeries of US copyright law, it is now legal to use the program to rip DVDs for noncommercial remix ...

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

... which can be obtained by simply ripping the DVD to your hard drive and transcoding it to an easily edited AVI file. To require video creators on YouTube to use those kinds of methods instead of ripping ...

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

... Manager page and click on the video's copyright status again, and it should say that you disputed the claim, and it should give a date one month from the day your filed your dispute, by which the copyright ...

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

... still disagrees with your dispute, they can then file a DMCA notice against your video, invoking the DMCA notice and counter-notice process described below. DMCA Takedown Notice/Copyright Strike - This ...

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

... today. Sincerely, The YouTube Team What this means in short is that Square Enix has 14 days to file a lawsuit against me, and if they don’t YouTube will restore my video. The ball is now in Square ...

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

... the audio track, to which I now turn. Audio Track Since AMVs typically use popular songs by high profile artists signed under major record labels (an overall much more litigation-happy bunch than ...

14. About This Site ('Uncategorised Content')

... fee. Please note however that because I am only licensed to practice law in Colorado, I can only provide limited legal services to clients in other states and cannot litigate or file papers with any court ...

15. Video Tutorials ('Uncategorised Content')

... Content ID Claims QFgRzJFfc1g 3. How to File a DMCA Counter-Notification KBJkrsAQdzc 4. Fair Use School: The Rest of the Copyright Story (Response to YouTube's "Copyright School" Video) sdVWW8qMwfU ...

16. Study: Recut, Reframe, Recycle (Web Links / Fair Use Resources)

This study, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, by the Center for Social Media, shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today's online videos are eligible ...

17. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

Sometimes it takes and extra couple days. Has it been restored now? Do you have the option to file a new dispute? ...

18. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... to the legal notices; fail to follow and comply with legal and formal DMCA process, and failed to file lawsuit seeking injunctions. So, there is a need to get YT-google and the content owners to comply ...

19. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Hey Patrick, I found someone odd when I filed counter notice. I believe the original claimant is EMI but I just got email today that Youtube won't honor the counter notice due to contractual argeements. ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... have real lawyers who know anything about the law file these things. ...