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Brooklyn Law Prof Has A Lil Fun With YouTube
I thought this was an interesting educational technique taking place over at Brooklyn Law...
"A Professor Attempts a Goal-Line Stand
In honor of Viacom’s much-publicized decision to sue Google for a whopping $1-billion in “massive intentional copyright infringement” damages, we thought we’d provide an update on a rather less lucrative YouTube copyright saga.
Last month Wendy Seltzer, a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, was slapped with a DMCA takedown notice after she posted a snippet of the NFL’s standard copyright warning, taken from this year’s Super Bowl, on YouTube (The Chronicle, February 16). When last we checked in, Ms. Seltzer had sent a counternotification to the Web site, arguing that the clip was protected by fair-use doctrine and should be reinstated.
As it turns out, YouTube read Ms. Seltzer’s counternotification and decided she had a point: The site told her it would reinstate the clip. A week later, though, the video has already been taken back offline because of a copyright-infringement claim by the National Football League, according to YouTube. Copyright law, it seems, is nothing if not a back-and-forth game."
This story is all over the internet- I first saw it on an AOL Sports Newsfeed- but the above article comes from The Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1930/a-professor-attempts-a-goal-line-stand
I'm not sure I am fully clear on what the NFL's interest/intent is here, but I think Prof Seltzer is very clever in attempting to demonstrate the hypersensitivity of some copyright holders. I also think cases such as these begin to establish a sort of common law for just how to handle the copyright law monster that is You Tube.
Prof Seltzer has a blog here: http://wendy.seltzer.org/
Posted by at March 21, 2007 2:31 PM
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