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

... deny disputes, leaving users with no further recourse to have non-infringing videos restored. YouTube established a new “appeals” process, which once again gave users whose videos are blocked by Content ...

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

... some videos and not others, and the requirement to "verify" your YouTube account with a text message sent to a cell phone before you can file an appeal. As I noted in my initial post about the new ...

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

... whose videos are blocked or monetized by false Content ID matches recourse to the counter-notice process under the DMCA. The new appeals process is described in greater detail here. As I said in ...

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

... do not own may itself constitute copyright infringement. As I have documented extensively here, YouTube's Content ID matching system is now routinely used to falsely claim ownership of videos that the ...

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

... ID” program. As a YouTube video creator who frequently employs fair use in order to make unauthorized use of copyrighted content in YouTube videos, and because of my work advocating for a fairer copyright ...

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

... to falsely claim and monetize videos the claimant has no right to, and to block videos with no recourse for the user, even if they are likely fair use. All of this is done with YouTube's direct knowledge ...

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

Dear YouTube, Over the last few months, I have become increasingly aware of a fatal flaw in YouTube’s copyright enforcement regime, which frequently leaves non-infringing videos blocked for supposed ...

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

Over the last few months, I have become increasingly aware of a fatal flaw in YouTube’s copyright enforcement regime, which frequently leaves non-infringing videos blocked for supposed copyright reasons ...

9. 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 ...

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

... from motion pictures in noncommercial remix videos (a practice commonly called "vidding"). Vidding includes things like Anime Music Videos (AMVs) and other similar types of music videos common on YouTube, ...

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

... read-aloud features on e-books, security research on copy protection mechanisms in video games, and the right to circumvent CSS copy protection on DVDs in order to use short clips from motion pictures ...

12. 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 ...

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

Step 3: Dispute the Copyright Notification Once that you have determined that your video is in fact fair use, in order to get it restored you will need to dispute the copyright notice. This will be done ...

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

Step 2: Decide if your video is fair use If your video was blocked for copyright reasons, either by an automated Content ID match or by a DMCA notice, you will have to decide if your video falls under ...

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

Step 1: Determine how and why your video was blocked First you need to figure out how and why your video was blocked, which is important to know in deciding what to do about it. YouTube generally removes ...

16. 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. ...

17. 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. ...

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

Today I realized I hadn’t been paying too much attention to marketing my YouTube channel of late. I had recently noticed that one of my anime music videos using the song “Hand of Sorrow” by the Dutch ...

19. About This Site ('Uncategorised Content')

... containing my credentials are below. Because I am now a licensed attorney, I am available for phone consultations and can provide legal advice regarding copyright matters and online videos for a small ...

20. Video Tutorials ('Uncategorised Content')

See below for video tutorials on how to dispute copyright notices on YouTube. More videos coming soon. 1. How to Dispute Content ID Claims (Updated Nov 2012) -9PSaTv-Mb0 2. How to Appeal Reinstated ...