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21. The Fair Use Project (Web Links / Fair Use Resources)

A project of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society dedicated to promoting awareness of fair use.

22. Stanford University - Fair Use Overview (Web Links / Fair Use Resources)

A good overview of fair use law from Standford University. ...

23. Internet Law Treatise: Fair Use (Web Links / Fair Use Resources)

A good article on fair use on a legal information wiki site.

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

... copyright lawsuit can be considerable, even if you are ultimately found not liable. Therefore please think carefully about the possible consequences of any action you may take, and if you are in doubt ...

25. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... to deny, reject or refuse fair use allowed under the 1998 US-EU doctrine or its counterpart in other laws. YT-google fails to disclose valid contact information of copyright claimants, and often provides ...

26. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... use. Here is the relevant statute: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1101 So as far as posting live concert recordings, you are completely at the mercy of the copyright holder whether they choose ...

27. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... the copyright holder let alone result in a lawsuit, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. ...

28. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... use. YouTube follows US fair use law, though sometimes they might ask you to justify it under your country's law as well. Jhon - If your compilation uses only brief clips and re-contextualizes them along ...

29. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... Also, as a Canadian, would I abide by my national fair use laws, or those of the copyright holder? Sorry for the long question(s), thanks. ...

30. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

The thing is, the "put back up" part of the safe harbor law isn't really legally required. YouTube has pretty well insulated themselves against direct liability to the users for not restoring videos after ...

31. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

I still think there's something wrong with YouTube's copyright system a whole. Last year,youtube having the wrong claimants. I recall one of was NFL not UMG. If that's the case then isn't Youtube could ...

32. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... the personal attention of the copyright holder's lawyers, enough to send you an individualized cease and desist letter. While your video could possibly qualify as fair use, it's iffy at best, so unless ...

33. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... Either YouTube has the same deal with them or YouTube can't even keep the claimant straight again or It's another flaw with Youtube automated system. Somehow I kinda believe that UMG put that up to avoid ...

34. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... as I never let a strike stay on my own account that long. I did have a very old strike from before I really got into copyright law, and that expired about 6 months after they announced the policy about ...

35. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... video is absolutely Fair Use, or at least Fair Dealing under U.K. law. What happens if I dispute the claim as Fair Use on YouTube? It's currently playable in the U.S. Does my Fair Use claim, if successful, ...

36. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

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

37. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

No, with a DMCA counter-notice, the copyright holder basically has the choice to either do nothing and let YouTube restore the video after 10 days or actually file a lawsuit against you for an injunction ...

38. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Hmm, yeah the fact that it's unreleased could decrease the likelihood of fair use, though the law is clear that the fact that something is unreleased alone is not enough to disqualify a use as fair use. ...

39. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... as follows on each song: "This video is fair use under U.S. copyright law because it is (1) non-commercial, (2) transformative in nature, (3) uses no more of the original work than necessary for the video's ...

40. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... use test. Looks like you already have a pretty good idea what to say there. And yes, since YouTube is a US company, American copyright law would generally apply. So everything about fair use described ...