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WARNING: NOTHING ON THIS WEBPAGE SHOULD BE TAKEN AS LEGAL ADVICE. IT'S A SAD TRUTH OF U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW THAT, EVEN IF YOU ENGAGE IN FAIR USE CORRECTLY, YOU STILL RISK A LAWSUIT COSTING YOU TIME, EFFORT AND MONEY.  TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT YOUR RISK, CONSULT AN ATTORNEY ABOUT THE SPECIFIC FACTS OF YOUR SITUATION

 

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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:

 

Playing Fair on YouTube

 

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 Lawrence Lessig about problems with copyright law using the video player at:

 

 

 

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, Sacramento Bee profile of my YouTube channel at:

 

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

ACLU of Northern California and Stanford Fair Use Project letter to Viacom in support of LiberalViewer videos

 

 

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:

 

March 2007 Notification from YouTube that November 2006 LiberalViewer Counternotices were just given to Viacom

 

And, you can see YouTube’s April 2007 email to me notifying me that Viacom has begun retracting its copyright claims against me at:

 

April 2007 Notification from YouTube that Viacom Retracted Copyright Claims Against LiberalViewer Videos


 

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