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November 20th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
November 20, 2015
Google recently announced that their company will fund $1 million in legal fees to its subsidiary YouTube for content creators who have their channels taken down because of copyright notices.
The company said the purpose of this change is to “continue to resist legally unsupported DMCA takedowns as part of our normal processes.”
Using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) some copyright trolls are forcing YouTube to remove content and entire user channels based on a submission of copyright infringement to YouTube.
Examples of fair use videos that fall under YouTube’s new change are:
- Secular Talk’s video criticizing presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee’s endorsement of an unproven diabetes treatment
- A video for Mit Romney’s presidential campaign depicting President Obama singing
Constantine Guiliotis, known as Dean of the YouTube Channel UFO Theater, has been the victim of copyright infringement abuse. His channel received 3 DMCA notices from copyright holders of images he used in his videos under fair use.
Guiliotis provided analysis and commentary when using the images, which qualifies his channel for protection under YouTube’s new fair use.
YouTube has chosen content creators that have not been sued by the copyright holder. These YouTubers have all been victimized by the abuse of copyright trolls.
Fred von Lohmann, copyright legal director for Google, wrote in a blog post that “YouTube will now protect some of the best examples of fair use on YouTube by agreeing to defend them in court if necessary.”
Lohmann explained that Google will offer “legal support to a handful of videos that we believe represent clear fair uses which have been subject to DMCA takedowns. With approval of the video creators, we’ll keep the videos live on YouTube in the U.S., feature them in the YouTube Copyright Center as strong examples of fair use, and cover the cost of any copyright lawsuits brought against them.”
Google has made this change because the corporation is aware “that creators can be intimidated by the DMCA’s counter notification process, and the potential for litigation that comes with it (for more background on the DMCA and copyright law see check out this Copyright Basics video).”
In an effort to protect “the individual creator”, Google has implemented this “program [to] create a ‘demo reel’ that will help the YouTube community and copyright owners alike better understand what fair use looks like online and develop best practices as a community.”
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