How can New Media Rights help you?

New Media Rights answers questions from the public and takes media inquiries regarding the law and technology.  Please contact us if you have a question and we'll be glad to assist you. Our free legal and how-to resources, as well as our free public media studio and equipment, are supported by donations by individuals like you, so please consider donating today! Contact us for legal assistance at (619) 591-8870.

New York Times Article on YouTube Takedowns

Submitted by jason eliaser on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 11:25

YouTube vs. Warner Brothers vs. Users: Guess who loses? An interesting article in this morning's New York Times on how Warner issues its Takedown notices, how YouTube responds, and its effect on the YouTube community:

As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes (free login required)
Filed Under
Topics: Copyright - Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) - Fair Use - Social Video -
Tags: YouTube - fair use - takedown notices - DMCA - Warner - New York Times -
»

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Glossary terms will be automatically marked with links to their descriptions. If there are certain phrases or sections of text that should be excluded from glossary marking and linking, use the special markup, [no-glossary] ... [/no-glossary]. Additionally, these HTML elements will not be scanned: a, abbr, acronym, code, pre.

More information about formatting options