Comments on: Starting the fire: YouTube audio takedowns

By: todo mundo » Blog Archive » Concise notes on Fair Use in YouTube

todo mundo » Blog Archive » Concise notes on Fair Use in YouTube — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:02:42 +0000

[...] go “above and beyond” its legal obligations to copyright claimants. Faced with videos silenced and disabled for their transformative use of popular music, vidders like zcatz recorded glum [...]

By: driscoll

driscoll — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:22:42 +0000

it’s not new. as far as i can tell, it’s the same thing i blogged here in dec 07. it just is not widely implemented.

i believe this is because the automated DMCA takedowns cite the VIDEO (audio included.) they would have to create a special boilerplate to request a takedown of the audio alone.

now that they have AudioSwap, i suspect that YT may start pushing this mute option more often.

http://www.youtube.com/audioswap_about

it’s an interesting response to the “dancing baby” case: http://freedomforip.org/category/eff/

but, of course, for anyone who seriously values music as something more than (shudder) CONTENT, audioswap is lulzy and ridiculous.

By: w&w

w&w — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:12:36 +0000

in case you haven’t seen this — an interesting shift in strategy?
http://mashable.com/2009/01/14/youtube-mutes-videos/

(oh, looking at delish, i see that you did)

By: wayneandwax.com » Watch My Upmost Music Industry Nem

wayneandwax.com » Watch My Upmost Music Industry Nem — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:09:35 +0000

[...] can waffle over whether YouTube’s newly unleashed audio takedown worm will make this activity move elsewhere, but it’ll keep on moving, no doubt. (& I’m [...]

By: Raul

Raul — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:26:20 +0000

This has happened to me only I did not get a notice!!!!!! I just got silenced!