Google Offers To Help Protect The Best Fair Use on YouTube

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Google Offers To Help Protect The Best Fair Use on YouTube

engine

6:44 pm on Nov 20, 2015 (gmt 0)

Google has taken an unusual step in offering to help defend YouTube publishers in court if it is classed at the best examples of fair use on YouTube. It goes on to say that it'll only be a handful of videos. Clearly, it wants to make a point over "fair use" in YouTube videos, and it should help some publishers.

While we can’t offer legal protection to every video creator—or even every video that has a strong fair use defense—we’ll continue to resist legally unsupported DMCA takedowns as part of our normal processes. Google Offers To Help Protect The Best Fair Use on YouTube [googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com]

superclown2

2:50 pm on Nov 23, 2015 (gmt 0)

In other words they want to erode copyright even more than they've done already.

lucy24

10:34 pm on Nov 23, 2015 (gmt 0)

Tentative translation: It is in some way to YouTube's benefit to allow videos that cannot possibly be authorized* ... to not only continue running, but to carry multiple ads.

* Like, f'rinstance, complete episodes of currently running TV series, recorded off-the-air rather than posted by the creator or distributor.

tangor

5:23 am on Nov 24, 2015 (gmt 0)

Then again, there are an extraordinary amount of DMCA's issued on 1-3 minutes divergent, parody, and other fair use instances. Think "dancing baby" and dozens of cat videos. :)

tangor

5:44 am on Nov 24, 2015 (gmt 0)

On a side note:

Google takedown requests mushroom as copyright holders play whack-a-mole
Google received more than 65 million removal requests for search results containing alleged copyright violations in the space of the past month.

The takedown demands have come from the usual suspects, including the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), which asked Google to remove 7.1 million URLs as of mid-November this year.

[theregister.co.uk...]

Do note these are serp takedown requests, not YouTube specific, though I suspect many in this report fall into that category.