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

... ID recourse to the DMCA counter-notice process if the copyright owner insists on rejecting their dispute. At the end of the process, the user’s video would be restored unless the copyright claimant actually ...

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

Last month YouTube announced a new process for appealing reinstated Content ID claims that was supposed to solve the problem of copyright owners being made the ultimate judge of disputes against their ...

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

... changed, and YouTube now finally acknowledges that, "Prior to today, if a content owner rejected that dispute, the user was left with no recourse for certain types of Content ID claims (e.g., monetize ...

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

... do not own may itself constitute copyright infringement. As I have documented extensively here, YouTube's Content ID matching system is now routinely used to falsely claim ownership of videos that the ...

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

... a censorship mechanism. It is a way to grant one person or entity a monopoly on certain speech and deny all but those declared to be the “owners” of that speech the right to use it for their own expression. ...

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

... of copyright ownership YouTube's Content ID system works by allowing copyright owners to upload digital copies of video or audio works, which YouTube's servers use to create a digital "fingerprint," ...

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

... copyright reasons with literally no recourse for the user and no way to dispute the copyright block. Contrary to YouTube's stated policy of requiring copyright owners to escalate to a DMCA notice to ...

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

... copyright owner enrolled in the Content ID program, several things can happen. The video can remain viewable, but “monetized,” meaning adds will show next to it; it can be blocked entirely (either worldwide ...

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

... and Jaszi argue that it was a mistake to concede so much ground to content owners, such that many copyright reformers had effectively given up on fair use. As Peter Jenkins once wrote in response to ...

10. 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 ...

11. Where is the fair use doctrine codified? (FAQs/FAQ Articles)

... Section 107. This section provides: Section 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A [setting forth copyright owners' exclusive rights ...

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

... to prove that her or his use of the copyrighted work of another should be legally permitted, notwithstanding the copyright owner's exclusive rights in her work. ...

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

... infringement by a copyright owner. You should know if your video was taken down as a result of a DMCA takedown notice because you would have gotten an email from YouTube saying that there is now a "strike" ...

14. 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 ...

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

... and blocks access to videos containing material which copyright owners have told YouTube to block. This system may either block access to a video entirely, or merely mute the audio (depending on whether ...

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

... than five minutes after I disputed the initial automated filter identification. One of the things the DMCA requires copyright owners to include in a takedown notice is, “A statement that the complaining ...

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

... of proof is on the copyright owner to prove harm to the market or value of the work (Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios). In the case of AMVs, the small amount of footage used, the reordering of brief ...

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

... content-identification or by filing a DMCA counter-notification. As always, please be aware that it is possible that a copyright owner could sue you at any point in this process, even if you take ...

19. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

In June/July 2012, I have managed to get YT-google to stop making false allegations of copyright infringements on each fair use video clip YT and content owners blocked or removed. In my emails to copyright@youtube.com, ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

If you were physically present at the match and recorded it yourself with your own camera, you would be the copyright owner (assuming there's not some hidden term of service when you buy tickets transferring ...