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

... glitch, it now appears that something far more nefarious is going on. I have recently discovered evidence that YouTube has contracts with certain copyright holders (including Universal Music Group ...

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

... taken down too?). So it turns out that Sanchez recently discovered that his video--a prime example of fair use if I ever saw one--was blocked by a Content ID claim from the music publisher, Kobalt Music ...

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

... to provide a legal means for YouTube users to use their members' music but appear to have insufficient safeguards to prevent mistakes like Content ID matching birdsongs to their music. What all these groups ...

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

... non-copyrighted one. This problem is especially severe with regard to recordings of classical music, where the music itself is in the public domain, but specific recordings may be subject to copyright. ...

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

... Likewise if a song by one artist uses royalty free music loops from something like GarageBand or Final Cut, and another song by a different artist uses those same loops, Content ID may identify the second ...

6. Falling Through the Cracks in YouTube's Copyright System (Other/Articles)

... week, it had not actually happened to me (at least where the video was blocked in the U.S. where fair use applies). Then last week, I noticed one of my older anime music videos was blocked pretty much ...

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

... far enough to cover the majority of what online video creators actually do. It strongly implies that any use of a complete piece of music in a video cannot be transformative, and therefore is unlikely ...

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

... from motion pictures in noncommercial remix videos (a practice commonly called "vidding"). Vidding includes things like Anime Music Videos (AMVs) and other similar types of music videos common on YouTube, ...

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

... This exception allows anyone wanting to incorporate brief clips of movies and TV shows in a non-commercial (meaning not for profit) video such as an anime music video or film mashup, is now free to use ...

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

...  Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 US 569 (1994). Courts have held that the fair use defense can protect a parody of a copyrighted work from an infringement claim. However, that does not necessarily ...

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

...  copyright holder would not approve, such as criticism or parodies. See Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 US 569 (1994). ...

12. What is fair use? (FAQs/FAQ Articles)

...  Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994). Once the plaintiff has proven that his or her copyright was infringed upon, the burden lies with the defendant who invokes the fair use defense ...

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

... on my anime music videos, I usually say something like, "This video is fair use under U.S. copyright law because it is noncommercial and transformative in nature, uses no more of the original than necessary, ...

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

... than creative works like movies or music, and if it involves published material rather than unpublished material, it is slightly more likely to be considered fair use. Note: Since the original creation ...

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

Originally published as "Square Enix Abuses the DMCA Takedown Process" A few months ago I wrote a post on why anime music videos (AMVs) would likely be considered fair use under US copyright law. ...

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

... since high school of creating “anime music videos” or AMVs (music videos setting footage from anime shows and video games to popular songs) and posting them on websites such as YouTube and animemusicvideos.org. ...

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

Today I realized I hadn’t been paying too much attention to marketing my YouTube channel of late. I had recently noticed that one of my anime music videos using the song “Hand of Sorrow” by the Dutch ...

18. About This Site ('Uncategorised Content')

... reviews of physicians. Patrick is an avid YouTube user and has enjoyed creating music videos and mashups as a hobby for many years. Since YouTube first instituted its automated Content ID copyright filtering ...

19. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... counts as a full strike. I'm also not sure if it constitutes fair use since the video's main focuses were on something other than the music. The music was only there as enhancement to the original, non-copyrighted ...

20. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

I posted a memorial video of my son who passed away in 2011. The video consisted of a picture slideshow of my son from birth to most recent pictures before his death. The background music was a song by ...