Copyright Counter-notice: Do it Right

[absolutedestiny]

Many of you will have read my previous post where I was afraid to make a Copyright Counter-notification to defend one of my youtube vids.

I'm glad to report that I went ahead and made the counter-claim and today youtube restored the video!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ( Read more... )

Comments

[doki]

"To me, it seems like we have copyright owners throwing copyright claims on anything to looks vaguely infringing in the hope that people wont counter-claim"

On a similar note I read this today... Who owns the copyright on a picture taken by a monkey? :)
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110712/01182015052/monkeys-dont-do-fair-use-news-agency-tells-techdirt-to-remove-photos.shtml

[miraba]

Glad to hear it worked out for you.

[kyburg]

I'm so proud. Good for you!

[absolutedestiny]

For Content-ID matches, yeah, totally. But I'm just surprised that it found so little footage in the whole vid, especially when that footage was often composited into other things!

[solaristist]

18 seconds minimum is the current YouTube limit for detecting clips as far as I am aware.

[scintilla72]

I'm a little ashamed that, when I read your post topic, the first thing I thought was that you were going to explain to people the right way to do a counter-claim and exhort them to do them right.