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

... order to restrain the subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on the service provider’s system or network.” Here, YouTube takes down videos upon receipt of a takedown ...

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

... claims. The only conclusion I can come to is that far from having a true change of heart about the abuses enabled by its Content ID system, in enacting the new appeals process YouTube was merely trying ...

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

... its automated Content ID copyright filtering system. Even though it was possible to dispute copyright claims on your videos, the dispute went right back to the party claiming copyright over your video, ...

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

... a clear cause of action for filing a misrepresentative DMCA takedown notice, it is completely silent as to the legal status of private copyright enforcement systems like YouTube's Content ID that have ...

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

... enforcement system on YouTube through my website, FairUseTube.org, I have been in a position to see just how often such private copyright enforcement systems are abused. Under YouTube’s Content ID system, ...

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

... page in place to serve as a reference documenting the former problems with the Content ID system, and because it has yet to be seen if the recent changes will be enough to truly resolve the problem of ...

7. 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 ...

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

... has not one but TWO overlapping copyright enforcement systems–it’s automated Content ID system, and the regular DMCA takedown regime that all content hosting sites are required to follow by the Digital ...

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

... current copyright system, which should be familiar to most people concerned with this subject. Copyright today lasts longer than ever, is broader than ever, and actually licensing copyrighted content ...

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

... of this exception is as follows: (1)  Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished ...

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

... differently depending on how your video was blocked. Disputing a Content ID Match - View video tutorial If your video was blocked by YouTube's automatic Content ID system, you will need to dispute ...

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

... video was removed in error. You can find more information about that process here. Content ID Match - YouTube's Content ID system automatically scans videos as they are uploaded for copyrighted material ...

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

... the YouTube Content ID system in the past because of the whole Warner Music debacle, I immediately disputed the copyright claim with the following statement: The use of video footage in this video ...

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

... System. Because this was one of my most popular videos, I wasn’t about to let them delete my video just because a computer had matched the song I used with one on Warner’s blocklist. And because I have ...

15. About This Site ('Uncategorised Content')

... system in 2007, he has been concerned about the potential for automated copyright enforcement systems to stifle legitimate speech which makes fair use of copyrighted material. He encountered this problem ...

16. Home Page ('Uncategorised Content')

... articles in which I am quoted. To real my full response to the changes, click here. November 21, 2011: Wired.com published an article on abuses of the YouTube Content ID system which mentioned FairUseTube.org ...

17. Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials (Web Links / Fair Use Resources)

Another good primer on fair use in general.

18. YouTube Help: Content ID (Web Links / YouTube Copyright Pages)

YouTube's help page on disputing copyright identifications by the automated Content ID system. ...

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

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

I still think there's something wrong with YouTube's copyright system a whole. Last year,youtube having the wrong claimants. I recall one of was NFL not UMG. If that's the case then isn't Youtube could ...