Search

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

... of people dancing to clips from the movie "The Breakfast Club." This was a meme going around a few years ago where people took this song and created videos themselves dancing to it in a variety of locations ...

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

... the average user is already bewildered by the current system. Adding an extra layer to the dispute process will only confuse people more.  Why not simply have it the way the dispute process originally ...

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

... We believe this is justified because it provides financial incentives for speech, and indeed it seems reasonable that people should be entitled to benefit from their creative works. But we must always ...

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

...  of online media agregator. They also run the site http://www.getmovies.ru/, which appears to be a Russian site for downloading pirated movies (oh the irony.... a pirate site acusing other people of ...

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

... the process works with the way it actually works in practice: Because of this website, I have received numerous messages from people stuck in this situation, and I have experienced it myself on numerous ...

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

... and the video tutorials I have posted on YouTube regarding fair use and the Content ID dispute process, people have been posting comments and sending me messages about this for a while. But until last ...

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

... movement. The basic thesis of Reclaiming Fair Use is that, far from being a dead letter or uselessly vague concept, fair use today is alive and well; and the more people insist on exercising their rights ...

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

... screen, change the "Video" drop down box from "copy" to "MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid)". (Note: At the time I wrote this article, XVID was the standard video format most people used to rip DVDs. Now, you might want ...

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

... students other than film and media studies students.” The documentary exception, while important, is also of only limited utility since it applies to a very small class of people–documentary film makers. ...

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

... like teenagers singing copyrighted songs in their bedrooms, and such people arguably could not be expected to navigate the complexities of the licensing process, which would be incomprehensible to the ...

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

... true digital natives they like to express that love by making tribute videos–taking clips from the various Final Fantasy games and movies and setting them to their favorite songs. Many people then watch ...

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

... a substitute for buying the original song if people merely listen to the song on YouTube or rip the audio track from the video and save it to their computer instead of buying the song. While both of ...

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

... now mad at Warner, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been urging people whose videos are unjustly pulled from YouTube to fight it by disputing the automatic takedowns with fair use counterlclaims, ...

14. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... footage. They were not videos about the musical artists such as people who post unauthorized music videos with or without added lyrics. I'm still waiting to get a response from Youtube about my video. ...

15. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... also flagged but I disputed it under the fair use clause as it was not the main focus on the video and only a portion was played, disrupted by people coughing etc., so I highly doubt that it will cause ...

16. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Patrick, Thank you so much! I didn't expect such a swift reply, Holidays and all. Anyway, great resource, I feel lucky I stumbled upon it, just Googling. This kind of info and such expertise people usually ...

17. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... as well as provide proof of a story. They may include a photograph from an event, include quotations from people attending an event, or provide an audio sound portrait from an event, among many other uses ...

18. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... illegal if we are criticizing the speaker instead of the news coverage? 5. How about things people put up on YouTube? If there is a free to view 30 minute documentary by the creator on YouTube, can a TV ...

19. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... production studios, for amounts of money no YouTube creator could afford. However I believe a lot of the trailer music companies tolerate people using their music on YouTube and use Content ID to track ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

patrick, send me an email and ill reply to you with the links to the movies, you deserve a good laugh or two anyway for helping so many people. ;) ...