Google highlights fair use defense to YouTube takedowns

Google has improved highlighted its ContentID copyright enforcement system for YouTube, a “fair use” button for people who’ve had their videos taken offline (like all those people who created Hitler/Downfall parodies). The way the new system works: after your video is taken down by a copyright complaint, you have the option to contest the complaint, either because you dispute the copyright claim itself, or because you believe you have a fair use defense. Click the button, and your video goes straight back up (and the people who sent the original takedown have to go to court to get it taken offline again).

Content ID and Fair Use

(via Waxy)