LiberalViewer Webpage
WARNING: NOTHING ON THIS WEBPAGE SHOULD
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YOU CAN FIND ALL MY VIDEOS AT: LiberalViewer's
YouTube Channel
You can watch my video titled “How the ACLU Got Viacom To
Treat My YouTube Videos Fairly” using the video player at:
You can see the ACLU’s blog entry about my case at:
You can see the particularly important “Fair Use Practices
for User Generated Video Content” recently released by the ACLU, the EFF and
others at:
Fair Use Practices for User Generated Video
Content
You can see extensive information from attorney Wendy Seltzer
about copyright excesses using the video player at:
You can see extensive information from attorney
You can see info about the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s
related Moveon.org/BraveNewFilms case including
Viacom’s agreement to tolerate use of its copyrighted material “where the use or
copy is occasional and is a creative, newsworthy, or transformative use of a
limited excerpt for noncommercial purposes” at:
Viacom
Gives Fair Use a Wide Berth on YouTube (April 2007)
Additional information from attorney Tony Falzone of the Fair
Use Project is available in the NPR interview at:
Stanford
Center Advocates for Fair Use on Web (May 2007)
You can see general information about my YouTube postings, in
the January 23, 2007,
Media Savvy:
LiberalViewer is watching
You can see media coverage of my fair use fight at the
following links:
E!
News coverage of first Viacom takedowns (October 2006)
Red Herring
coverage of first Viacom takedowns (November 2006)
YouTube
Purges LiberalViewer's Account (SacBee story February 2007)
Not All Videos
Are YouTube Worthy (KXTV story summary February 2007)
Not All
Videos Are YouTube Worthy (KXTV local news video February 2007)
Parody maker's
copyright fight with media giants takes fair turn (SacBee story August 2007)
You can see correspondence to/from Viacom in support of my
fair use claims in the following letters:
ACLU
of Northern California letter to Viacom regarding 100,000+ YouTube takedowns in
February 2007
Viacom
response to ACLU of Northern California regarding 100,000+ YouTube takedowns in
February 2007
LiberalViewer
email to Viacom asking for dialog on parameters of FAIR USE
You can see the Takedown Notices I received at:
First
Viacom Takedown Notice to LiberalViewer in November 2006
Second
Viacom Takedown Notice to LiberalViewer in November 2006
Third
Viacom Takedown Notice to LiberalViewer in November 2006
Fourth
Viacom Takedown Notice to LiberalViewer in November 2006
Pee Wee
Herman Takedown Notice to LiberalViewer
Fox Takedown
Notice to LiberalViewer
You can see the Counternotices with which I responded at:
First
LiberalViewer counternotice disputing a Viacom accusation of copyright
infringement
Second
LiberalViewer counternotice disputing a Viacom accusation of copyright
infringement
Third
LiberalViewer counternotice disputing a Viacom accusation of copyright
infringement
Fourth
LiberalViewer counternotice disputing a Viacom accusation of copyright
infringement
LiberalViewer
counternotice disputing a Pee Wee Herman accusation of copyright infringement
LiberalViewer
counternotice disputing a Fox accusation of copyright infringement
You can see my November 2006 email in which I seemingly have
to explain the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to YouTube at:
LiberalViewer
seemingly has to explain the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to YouTube
You can see my email to the YouTube editor disputing her
claim in a February
2007 blog entry that YouTube was following the DMCA at:
LiberalViewer
disputes YouTube's February 2007 Blog Entry Claiming YouTube Followed the DMCA
You can see YouTube’s March 2007 email to me apologizing for
the delay in finally following the DMCA at:
And, you can see YouTube’s April 2007 email to me notifying
me that Viacom has begun retracting its copyright claims against me at:
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maintained by Allen
Asch.