{"id":3718,"date":"2007-02-06T02:57:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T06:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2007\/02\/06\/how-many-mistaken-takedowns-did-viac"},"modified":"2007-02-06T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T15:56:41","slug":"how-many-mistaken-takedowns-did-viacom-send","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2007\/02\/06\/how-many-mistaken-takedowns-did-viacom-send\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Mistaken Takedowns Did Viacom Send?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JP <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/2007\/02\/02\/viacoms-cease-and-desist-letters-for-a-home-video\/\">has<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/2007\/02\/02\/community-organizing-around-takedowns\/\">everything<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/2007\/02\/03\/whats-the-day-2-story-on-the-viacom-youtube-tussle\/\">you<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/2007\/02\/03\/a-voice-from-outside-the-us-on-the-viacom-youtube-matter\/\">need<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/2007\/02\/03\/another-video-for-the-put-back-up-list\/\">to<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/2007\/02\/04\/viacom-believes-fewer-than-60-take-down-mistakes\/\">know<\/a> to get caught up on Viacom&#8217;s C&amp;D&#8217;s to YouTube. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toptensources.com\/topten\/YouTube-and-Viacom\">TopTenSources is aggregating stories<\/a> about takedown misfires, whether outright errors or overreaching copyright claims.<\/p>\n<p>JP quotes Viacom&#8217;s Michael Fricklas saying, &#8220;Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/html\/uscode17\/usc_sec_17_00000512----000-.html\">DMCA<\/a>, I believe that YouTube needs to retain the material and repost it if an individual believes that the copyright notice was in error.\u201d As I pointed out in the comments, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s right &#8212; YouTube does not have to put the material back up. As long as YouTube takes the allegedly infringing content down, it gets the safe harbor and Viacom can&#8217;t go after it. It keeps that safe harbor if the content stays down, and it keeps that safe harbor if it puts the back up pursuant to 512(g).<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a counter-notice following 512(g) protects YouTube from a claim brought by a *user*, but YouTube&#8217;s ToS may take care of that anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JP has everything you need to know to get caught up on Viacom&#8217;s C&amp;D&#8217;s to YouTube. TopTenSources is aggregating stories about takedown misfires, whether outright errors or overreaching copyright claims. JP quotes Viacom&#8217;s Michael Fricklas saying, &#8220;Under DMCA, I believe that YouTube needs to retain the material and repost it if an individual believes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}