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

... the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; (4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, ...

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

... companies submitting works that are either in the public domain or are simply not owned by them into the Content ID database.  This allows them to claim ownership of, block, and/or receive ad revenue ...

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

... song as matching the first--even though the only elements those songs have in common are in the public domain. 3. The Content ID dispute process is ineffective and gives copyright claimants the ability ...

5. 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 ...

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

Earlier this summer, I made the winning video for Public Knowledge’s video contest to create a response to YouTube’s “Copyright School” video, which made only a token mention of the crucial exception ...

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

... to stimulate creativity for the enrichment of the general public. The defendant must show how a use either advances knowledge or the progress of the arts through the addition of something new. The ...

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

...  FACTOR 1: THE PURPOSE AND CHARACTER OF THE USE "This factor considers whether the use helps fulfill the intention of copyright law to stimulate creativity for the enrichment of the general public." ...

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

... the Electronic Frontier Foundation, no individual YouTube user has ever been sued over a remix video, and Square Enix would have to be incredibly stupid to bring the bad publicity on themselves of suing ...

10. About This Site ('Uncategorised Content')

... civil rights group Public Knowledge, calling for responses to YouTube’s mandatory “copyright school” video, which all users accused of copyright infringement were required to watch. Patrick has since dedicated ...

11. Video Tutorials ('Uncategorised Content')

... tool for fighting abusive takedown notices against your videos. It also gives a brief tutorial on how to file a DMCA counter-notice on YouTube. This video won first prize in Public Knowledge's video contest ...

12. Home Page ('Uncategorised Content')

... my article on the subject. Read the TorrentFreak article here, and my article about the flaws in the Content ID system here. July 13, 2011: Tech policy group Public Knowledge announced my video, "Fair ...

13. Google Blog Post about YouTube's Content ID System (Web Links / YouTube Copyright Pages)

14. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

John - I'm afraid I don't have any solid answers for your questions. DMCA strikes and content ID strikes from global blocks are tracked differently, and there really isn't any public information from YouTube ...

15. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... any harm to the artist, more likely the opposite, free publicity if people happen to inquire about the song if they like it. Nobody is going to copy the song from my video, it would be dumb to get an incomplete ...

16. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... they should all be in the public domain now. If you were using clips from documentaries about the Titanic or something, that could easily be fair use, depending on the context. Shanya - You can use short ...

17. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... and since no "market" for this clip exists whatsoever, and since the purpose is to memorialize a public event, would we be safely under the Fair Use umbrella? ...

18. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... of the copyrighted material to the public’s understanding of and confidence in the reporting. • The journalist should attribute the material in a reasonable manner. THREE: When copyrighted material is ...

19. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Dana, Actually I was mistaken about CSPAN. Much of what it produces is NOT considered works of the federal government and in the public domain. Everything except House and Senate floor proceedings (which ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Hi Rick, That is very helpful. On Public events such as the State of the Union, or Senate Hearing, if it airs on CSPAN it is OK even if 30 minutes, but if it is CNN's camera we could not show the full ...