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21. 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 ...

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

... about the legal status of your video, please consult a qualified attorney before taking any action. That being said, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, no ordinary YouTube user has ever ...

23. Articles (Category)

This section contains various articles I have written about copyright, fair use, and user-generated video. Most of these originally come from my personal blog: http://prelator.wordpress.com ...

24. Determining How Your Video Was Blocked (Comments)

... their invalid email addresses. As a result, YT-users remain unable to resolve the disputes directly with the alleged copyright owners or ultimate content owners. The content owners fail to respond expeditiously ...

25. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... facts with their users, but help them to understand the meaning of those facts. Arts journalists often need to compare current work to earlier work, or provide a meaningful comparison with others’ work ...

26. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

The thing is, the "put back up" part of the safe harbor law isn't really legally required. YouTube has pretty well insulated themselves against direct liability to the users for not restoring videos after ...

27. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... its reputation? That is, it knows UMG will take this to court, and therefore wants to avoid the bad publicity? "YouTube User Sued! Any other advice? I'm really frustrated at this point. Thank you. ...

28. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... company sued a user who filed a counter-notice. It is always a possibility though. ...

29. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... DMCA policy and is arbitrarily denying some counter-notices and refusing to honor them, at least for some users outside the US. But as far as I know the video resolution has nothing to do with that. ...

30. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... (at least if you are in the US--I've been seeing a lot of foreign users having counter-notices denied by YouTube without following the normal process, which I'm still investigating). On one of my AMVs, ...

31. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Hi Patrick, Do you have any rough stats or odds on how often Fair Use claims are successful? I have several videos that, due to licensing issues, are not available for mobile users. That cuts my traffic ...

32. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Yes the person who filmed it would be the copyright owner. If you want to use footage from another YouTube user, it's always best to try contacting them and asking permission. Most YouTube users are much ...

33. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

... that is incomplete, non-specific, or otherwise indicates the user didn't put any thought into whether their video actually qualifies as fair use. So if you write your counter-notice in proper English with ...

34. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

Looks like Base79 is a YouTube mulch-channel network like Fullscreen or Machinima. Luckily MCNs aren't known for being particularly litigious, and I've never heard of one suing another YouTube user for ...

35. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

http://www.youtube.com/user/ClassicPerformances2 HI Patrick,,,my video and account was indeed restored....thanks so much. However, on my homepage...most popular videos seem to be deleted and/ or I can ...

36. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

Howard - There's no real easy answer to that question. There have only ever been a handful of copyright infringement lawsuits over YouTube videos, and at least one of those was the YouTube user suing the ...

37. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

... reason to claim users content for monetization. This is the so called Content ID's purpose. In other words, all these corporations have banded together with Google to contract away Copyright law to the ...

38. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

... for users to use, all you can do is upload a video and see if it gets blocked, then dispute the block if you have grounds to do so. It sucks, but that's the way things are. ...

39. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

Not with those terminated accounts. I'm sure there are other people in the same situation. I don't really want to address in the Google help forums because I think the other users would assume I done ...

40. Disputing Copyright Notifications (Comments)

... reinstating videos in such circumstances. Therefore, we regretfully cannot honor this counter-notification." One user I am corresponding with recently received that in response to a counter-notice against ...