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

... right to make unauthorized use of copyrighted material under the fair use doctrine, the idea that copyright and free speech do not conflict is demonstrably false. At its heart, copyright law is ...

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

... inaccurate and incapable of considering the context of the material in question. Many works are outright misidentified. In other cases, the specific work is correctly identified, but matched incorrectly. ...

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

... your video is fair use, check the box that reads "This video uses copyrighted material in a manner that does not require approval of the copyright holder." If you're not sure if your video ...

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

... for that video will display a message saying “dispute successful” and the content match will soon disappear entirely. On the other hand, what happens if the copyright owner still believes the material ...

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

... or purpose rather than merely superseding the original, courts today are much more likely to find fair use, even if the new use could conceivably compete with some market for licensing the original material. ...

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

... faith belief that the material was disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification and click continue. On the dispute summary page, click the continue button, and then click ok when it asks you ...

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

... than merely derivative. Non-commercial use of copyrighted material is much more likely to be considered fair use than commercial use, since particularly in video there is an established market for licensing ...

9. 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 ...

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

... five elements, as nicely summarized by YouTube: Identify the specific URLs of material that YouTube has removed or to which YouTube has disabled access. Provide your full name, address, telephone ...

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

... transformative, weighing significantly in favor of them being fair use. 2. Nature of the Copyrighted Work Under copyright law, published materials are more likely to allow fair use than non-published ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

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

Another good primer on fair use in general.

15. 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 ...

16. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... of copyrighted material, that should be fair use. Nadya - If that clip is relevant for illustration purposes, I think it would probably be fair use to use it in that context. No credit is legally required, ...

17. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

Rita - That kind of personal slideshow where the song is relevant to the material of your slideshow is probably fair use in most cases. You would probably be okay disputing it, though again if it's blocked ...

18. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... for using every single copyrighted material they use, and tha only commentary they give is a short opinion or trivia. My question is, Is it possible to use copyrighted material if I list it from 1 to 10 ...

19. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... and a video of yourself making the image. The courts have been increasingly favorable toward "appropriative art" lately, where an artist incorporates parts of other artworks into his material. While your ...

20. Deciding if Video is Fair Use (Comments)

... that covers what we want to do: TWO: Use of copyrighted material as proof or substantiation in news reporting or analysis Journalists routinely include copyrighted material, whether from a report, a memo, ...