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

...  Videos removed or blocked due to YouTube's contractual obligations YouTube enters into agreements with certain music copyright owners to allow use of their sound recordings and musical compositions. ...

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. 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 ...

4. 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. ...

5. 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," ...

6. 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 ...

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

... way, contrary to their stated policy. Instead of requiring copyright owners to file a formal DMCA notice in response to a Content ID dispute, thus allowing users to invoke the DMCA counter-notice process, ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

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

... the market for the original" should be sufficient. One final note The DMCA requires copyright owners to certify that they have a "good faith belief" that the material in question is infringing when ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

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

... to ever mount legal challenges against AMVs. Thus the video portion of an AMV will likely never be the subject of copyright action. The most likely threat comes from the owners of the copyright for ...

16. 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, ...

17. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... copyright ownership of any video you take at the match to the tennis team or something). So you don't even need to claim fair use, because you own the copyright. ...

18. 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 ...

19. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... compilation to youtube without the owners approval? 2- what happens if you receive your first strike? What is tha things that you can not longert do? ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... and monetize those videos. Bob - Being sued for a YouTube video is highly unlikely, especially if your video gets a content ID match but it's allowed to stay up. Then the copyright owners have basically ...