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

... Under these contracts, we may be required to remove specific videos from the site, block specific videos in certain territories, or prevent specific videos from being reinstated after a counter notification. ...

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

... creators against overzealous copyright claims. Just over one year ago, I began a campaign on this site calling for much needed reforms to YouTube's process for disputing copyright claims made by ...

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

... websites or is only playable on YouTube. Whether the video may viewed on mobile devices and Internet-enabled TVs (called "syndication" in YouTube parlance). Whether the video is "monetized" by showing ...

4. 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 ...

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

... against which all other videos on the site are scanned. If even a portion of another video matches the sample in either its visual or audio content, the video is flagged as containing that copyrighted ...

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

... about whether to file a formal DMCA notification, and remove the content from the site according to the process set forth in the DMCA. In the vast majority of cases I've seen, however, ...

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

... with literally no recourse for the user and no way to dispute the copyright block. YouTube’s copyright policies are confusing enough to begin with, as unlike most other video sharing sites, YouTube ...

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

... a Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Online Video, I don’t see how it could ever reach enough people to have a meaningful impact. I run a website called fairusetube.org, in which I provide tutorials ...

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

... for purposes which are otherwise fair use under US copyright law. In celebration of this ruling, this site now offers the following guide on how to decrypt DVDs, rip them to your computer, and convert ...

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

... to create new, transformative works for purposes of commentary or criticism.   While most news sites and blogs will no doubt focus on the ability to jailbreak iPhones and iPads (which really won’t ...

11. Fair Use FAQs (Other/Other)

Below is a selection of FAQs from ChillingEffects.org, which give some basic information about the fair use doctrine and could be useful for online video creators. Please visit the ChillingEffects site ...

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

... or you are submitting a counter-notice to a website other than YouTube, you can email a counter-notice to the site's copyright compliance address (in the case of YouTube, copyright@youtube.com). The Digital ...

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

... website, "when a copyright holder sues a user of the work for infringement, the user may argue in defense that the use was not infringement but 'fair use.' Under the fair use doctrine, it is not an ...

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

...  Because YouTube is a private website run by a private corporation, they are not obligated to allow all forms of speech protected by the 1st Amendment, and can block any video which in their opinion ...

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

... since high school of creating “anime music videos” or AMVs (music videos setting footage from anime shows and video games to popular songs) and posting them on websites such as YouTube and animemusicvideos.org. ...

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

... found his video yanked off YouTube, dispite it being done with the express approval of the band and being featured on the band’s website. The result of all this was that everyone who uses YouTube is ...

17. About This Site ('Uncategorised Content')

This website is written and maintained by Patrick McKay, a Colorado attorney with a J.D. from Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Contact information and a limited curriculum vitae ...

18. Home Page ('Uncategorised Content')

...  The information on this site is specific to United States federal law and does not apply to other jurisdictions. The material on this site is NOT legal advice and is no substitute for consulting a qualified ...

19. Study: Recut, Reframe, Recycle (Web Links / Fair Use Resources)

This study, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, by the Center for Social Media, shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today's online videos are eligible ...

20. Internet Law Treatise: Fair Use (Web Links / Fair Use Resources)

A good article on fair use on a legal information wiki site. ...