Found this site yesterday and it looks like a great resource for anyone who wishes to fight YouTube whenever they trample on your fair use rights.
Welcome to Fair Use Tube.org! This is a site for user-generated video creators to learn how to protect their “fair use” rights under U.S. copyright law on video sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. This site is a compilation of resources and tools relating to copyright law and user-generated video, and is designed to provide amateur video creators with the resources they need to stand up for free speech and successfully challenge abusive takedown notices and Content ID matches, which frequently target non-infringing content.
If you are a creator whose video has been blocked, please check out my Guide to YouTube Removals as well as the Fair Use Resourcessection. Additionally, if you are a video creator wanting to use DVD footage from a movie or TV show for a remix video, check out the Guide to Ripping DVDs, which describes how to rip DVD footage to a format which you can import into video editing software.
If you need additional guidance or specific legal advice regarding your situation, you may contact me using the information provided on the About This Site page. Consultation fees may apply.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Welcome to Fair Use Tube.org! This is a site for user-generated video creators to learn how to protect their “fair use” rights under U.S. copyright law on video sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. This site is a compilation of resources and tools relating to copyright law and user-generated video, and is designed to provide amateur video creators with the resources they need to stand up for free speech and successfully challenge abusive takedown notices and Content ID matches, which frequently target non-infringing content.
