What's Fair Use? - The Media Show

We're confused! YouTube took down the video we made using the National Organization for Marriage's greenscreen auditions for their ad! Didn't we have a right to comment on it? In this episode, we talk with New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann, who talks to us about different defenses for "fair use" and how they affect your remixes and fan art.

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[Senmetsu]

These videos need to be widespread.

[themediashow]

@Senmetsu Then please, by all means, put 'em up on Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, MetaFilter, Slashdot, whatever you use -- we have no advertising budget, and rely on fans like you to help us get seen! Thank you!

[Bearcloud]

well I can relate I had a video from a game where I was showing a race track with a custom car I had put in the game and used a song as backgroun d music. well just got told that my video's sound was MUTED due to someone saying "HEY THATS OURS WE DIDN"T SAY HE COULD USE THAT" so youtube in their all mighty we don't wanna get sued mentality muted it. I mean come on. I'm not trying to make money off it. it' a freaking game video for petes sake! YOUTUBE GROW A FRAKING BACKBONE! AND SOME BALLS!

[Djarms67]

I hate DMCA claims.

[hot4lucky]

"fight the power, you heard it from him" - like

[cbmcnulty13]

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