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

... not in itself mandatory. In order to be immune from liability for users’ copyright infringement, YouTube must take down videos upon request. Likewise, in order to be immune from liability to the user for ...

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

... ID” program. As a YouTube video creator who frequently employs fair use in order to make unauthorized use of copyrighted content in YouTube videos, and because of my work advocating for a fairer copyright ...

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

... will eventually be pressured into changing its policies to rectify this situation. A. Introduction: Three Fundamental Flaws with the Content ID System In order to understand the problem of copyright ...

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

... claimant should have to get a court order to permanently enjoin the video. Once again, this is the way YouTube *publicly claims* the system works, but not how it is done in practice. I have been trying ...

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

... and resize the video so that it is in the proper aspect ratio (the ratio of width to height). It is important to do it in this order: crop and then resize. Double-click the "Crop" filter. This brings up ...

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

... read-aloud features on e-books, security research on copy protection mechanisms in video games, and the right to circumvent CSS copy protection on DVDs in order to use short clips from motion pictures ...

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

... work, the stronger its protection. In order to prevent the private ownership of work that rightfully belongs in the public domain, facts and ideas are separate from copyright?only their particular ...

8. 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 ...

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

... purely factual, the copyrighted work, the stronger its protection. In order to prevent the private ownership of work that rightfully belongs in the public domain, facts and ideas are separate from ...

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

...  new expression, meaning, or message.” (Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music). At least in regards to the video track, AMVs so heavily modify the original source footage by clipping, reordering, and overlaying ...

11. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... may be wrong. I get content matches sometimes. I usually dispute them under fair use. Some claims are released while others are not. Recently Sony ordered youtube to take down two of my videos for infringement. ...

12. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... or dispute. Would I be able to dispute it under Fair Use in order to monetize it or just let it be without acknowledging it and not monetizing it? ...

13. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... In order to do that work, journalists need to be able to reference and quote the material they discuss, making their selections and forming their commentary without the permission of the owners of the ...

14. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... the rainbow-but it appears that both are copyright protected. It was suggested that I post the video on Youtube in order to then transfer it to facebook. I don't care if It is on Youtube. What do you  ...

15. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... it removed entirely so the copyright owner has no claim on it in order to get your video unblocked. You can't force them to monetize it if they don't want to. ...

16. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Jessica, you are right that your use is borderline commercial. That doesn't necessarily mean it's not fair use, though your pictures may or may not add enough original meaning to the song to count as transformative ...

17. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... reasons I have stated. I have not knowingly made any false statements, nor am I intentionally abusing this dispute process in order to interfere with the rights of others. I understand that filing fraudulent ...

18. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... "The author does not claim to own copyright to this clip or sound recording. This clip has been posted to generate discussion and comment only, in order to memorialize and preserve an experience, and remember ...

19. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

@George - Woops, sorry about that. Yeah while I can't say for sure, recording dance performances which the music is an inextricable part of in order to analyze the dances is probably fair use. I also think ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... program. That does allow you to permanently block content with no court order, though if you read the rest of my site you'll see I think this is a bad thing because of the potential for abuse. You could ...