[New post] YouTube protecting ‘fair use’ parodies & commentary as it agrees to pay to fight copyright lawsuits

Ben Lovejoy posted: " Many YouTube videos include short clips of copyrighted material for the purposes of commentary or parody, uses that are protected by copyright law. However, most users would be intimidated by legal threats and so back down when faced by a takedown not" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on 9to5Google YouTube protecting ‘fair use’ parodies & commentary as it agrees to pay to fight copyright lawsuits by Ben Lovejoy Many YouTube videos include short clips of copyrighted material for the purposes of commentary or parody, uses that are protected by copyright law. However, most users would be intimidated by legal threats and so back down when faced by a takedown notice. Google has today said that it will be fighting to protect the fair use principle by offering "legal support" to a handful of videos that it believes represent good examples of legitimate use. For these videos, Google will refuse takedown notices, keeping the videos live on the service, and will meet all the legal costs of defending any court action ...  Read more of this post Ben Lovejoy | November 19, 2015 at 7:11 am | Tags: copyright, DCMA, Fair use, law, takedown, YouTube | Categories: YouTube | URL: http://wp.me/p1w6tN-wzd Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from 9to5Google. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://9to5google.com/2015/11/19/youtube-protecting-fair-use/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com