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Perspective

May 25, 2011

YouTube and Fair Use: Through the Lenz of Prince

The effectiveness of automated response systems for takedown claims of copyrighted material. By Nick Solish


By Nick Solish


The creation of YouTube.com in 2005 engendered a great deal of tension between owners of copyrighted content and people who upload original videos to YouTube.com. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides content owners with a mechanism by which they can challenge allegedly infringing content via a takedown notice. However, videos protected by the fair use doctrine of the Copyright Act are frequently taken down alongside infringing works. So th...

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