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

... Removals. In the meantime, I'd say online video creators have potentially won an important victory in the fight to protect our rights against overbearing copyright claims by automated filters, and I ...

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

... copyrights, it is important to keep in mind the ways in which copyright is abused under existing laws, and the potential for even greater abuses should these bills pass. Now that outright DNS blocking ...

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

...  While I found the history of the fair use doctrine and current judicial interpretation enlightening (I did not previously know that courts now consider transformativeness to be more important than ...

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

... looks like this: We need to make sure your options are set correctly. Go to Tools > Settings and click on the "IFO Mode" tab. The following options should be checked. The most important are that file ...

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

... students other than film and media studies students.” The documentary exception, while important, is also of only limited utility since it applies to a very small class of people–documentary film makers. ...

6. 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 ...

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

... most important factor. See Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enters., 471 U.S. 539 (1985). This factor considers the effect that the defendant's use has on the copyright owner's ability ...

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

...  This and factor four are probably the most important parts of the fair use test. The key to this prong of the test is whether the use is (1) commercial or non-commercial, and (2) transformative rather ...

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

Step 1: Determine how and why your video was blocked First you need to figure out how and why your video was blocked, which is important to know in deciding what to do about it. YouTube generally removes ...

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

... work This is often the most important prong of the fair use test, and together with the first prong is the one most strongly in favor of AMVs as fair use. In the case of non-commercial works, the burden ...

11. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... the text covering actual research while the pictures serve as the main joke of it all. The music is what got it blocked but is the least important(and unnecessary) part. I just don't have another copy ...

12. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... existence of phenomena and in developing arguments about them. Journalistic reporting, comment and criticism on cultural expression is a critically important part of the circulation of culture in a society. ...

13. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... can file a counter-notice and the video will be restored and the strike erased after 10 days. The message for the appeal isn't super important. Just write something under each of the prongs of the fair ...

14. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... story, as long as you don't use any more than you need to make your point. Any changes you could make like condensing it down to the most important parts for your purposes would improve your case for fair ...

15. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... but it works that way in order to protect free speech and ensure that speech isn't permanently suppressed without a court decision saying that it's illegal. If it is that important to you that the video ...

16. Are Anime Music Videos Fair Use? (Comments)

Hi Patrick, What a wonderful website you have! Thanks for all the important information. We have an audio post-process for which we created a series of original AMVs (16 of them!)and clearly call them ...

17. Book Review: "Reclaiming Fair Use" by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi (Comments)

... use's "grey" area rather than in a safe harbor, changing practice may move it much closer to the center. We strongly believe that it is important to challenge the DMCA's penalizing of those who want to ...

18. YouTube Copyfraud & Abuse of the Content ID System (Comments)

... http://www.sec.gov/ http://www.oft.gov.uk/ I think it is important compeling case for each of us, have a united place to archive the documentation, and submit the story in an organized way to the above ...