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

Last October, YouTube announced some much needed reforms to its Content ID copyright dispute process. Bowing to growing public pressure, YouTube ended the practice of allowing copyright claimants to unilaterally ...

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)

In a blog post yesterday, YouTube announced a new appeals process for Content ID disputes, which should put an end to copyright claimants acting as judges of their own claims and once again give users ...

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

... the same basic effect as the DMCA notice-and-takedown process but none of its safeguards. I have been developing a theory that the deliberate misuse of such private copyright systems to claim content you ...

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

...  processors, and ad-serving networks who “voluntarily” decide to cut-off services to websites which they decide “facilitate” copyright infringement. As many people have pointed out, this will most likely ...

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

Update October 4, 2012: YouTube has revised the Content ID dispute process to address many of the concerns expressed in this article. Specifically they have added a new appeals process which users can ...

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

... claims to some or all of its content." Here is how YouTube claims the Content ID dispute process works. According to this post on YouTube's official blog from April, 2010, http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/04/content-id-and-fair-use.html: ...

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

... Millennium Copyright Act.  Videos can be blocked/taken down by either system, and each system has its own process for filing a dispute.  If a video is subject to a DMCA takedown notice (which ...

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

... pointers about fair use and the YouTube copyright dispute process (without crossing the line into giving legal advice of course). From my experience, most YouTube users know virtually nothing about ...

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

... episodes of a TV show you may have to select which ones you want under the Input tab. Next click on the "Stream Processing" tab, and make sure "Enable Stream Processing" is selected. To reduce the final ...

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

... policy set by the Content ID system. Until October 2012, this used to be the end of the line and the user was left without further recourse. Recently however, YouTube has implemented a new appeals process, ...

12. 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 ...

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

... strike within six months (before the first strike has expired) the account is terminated." While these types of removals are not the focus of this tutorial, there is an appeal process if you believe your ...

14. 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. ...

15. About This Site ('Uncategorised Content')

... to take advantage of their fair use rights and to provide tutorials for how to navigate YouTube’s often confusing copyright dispute processes. In June 2011, he won a video contest hosted by the online ...

16. Home Page ('Uncategorised Content')

Latest News October 4, 2012: Victory! A little over one year after I began campaigning to raise awareness of the fatal flaws in YouTube's Content ID dispute process, YouTube has announced ...

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

... is based in part on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Guide to YouTube Removals, which, while now outdated, is also an excellent resource on this subject. This guide outlines the process for fighting ...

18. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... whole dispute process up through the DMCA counter-notice stage, since that's what's happened every time I've done it. ...

19. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... to the legal notices; fail to follow and comply with legal and formal DMCA process, and failed to file lawsuit seeking injunctions. So, there is a need to get YT-google and the content owners to comply ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... clips of music and videos about the bands in the process of talking about them, giving new updates, etc., even commercially. As long as you are providing original commentary and only use small amounts ...