Sacked by Copyright: DMCA Takedowns and Free Expression
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David Weinberger blogged about Wendy Seltzer’s Luncheon Series talk yesterday.
Wendy waits for the room to fill by running a very funny YouTube clip of the Daily Show segment about Viacom vs. YouTube. (The room is now packed.)
She was watching the Super Bowl and saw the notice: “This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent, is prohibited.” She took the clip off her MythTV and posted it to YouTube under the title “Super Bowl Highlights,” with a caption that said: “The NFL’s overreaching copyright claim.” That was on Feb. 8. Five says later, she got a notification from YouTube saying that they had taken the clip down because the NFL claimed it was infringing under the DMCA .
YouTube had received a list of 158 clips the NFL claimed was infringing. It’s likely that the NFL had a robot search for anything that was titled or tagged as NFL. Wendy asked to see the list and received it.
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