EFF Lawyer Calls YouTube ContentID Worse Than DMCA

Richard Koman writes "Warner Music Group is apparently blocking everything YouTube ContentID comes up with as potential infringement. We knew that, but this piece by Jason Perlow shows that they're also spewing out DMCA takedown notices for some pretty clearly fair-use stuff. In my interview with EFF's Fred von Lohmann he talks about how, as bad as the DMCA process is — and it's pretty firmly against fair-use — YouTube's process gives remixers and digital creators even fewer options to assert their right to speak through the fair use of copyright material. While EFF is negotiating with Google and the studios, he suggests that users boycott YouTube if they won't stand up for fair use."

Comments

Re:Alternative?

[BitZtream]

Yes, the solution to the problem is not to fix it, but to just listen to shitty music by people who aren't good enough to get a real contract.

Great idea. Really.

I spent a good year and a half doing just that, only listening to indie music, I stopped when my ears told me that if I didn't stop listening to it they were going to throttle my brain in a desperate attempt to save life as we know it.

Re:What a bunch of sour grapes!

[uigrad_2000]

[quote]they don't like Obama... does the EFF like anything?[/quote] Last I knew, the middle 'F' in EFF was for Freedom. That may have just a bit to do with the dislike for our current dictator.