So, despite it being an textbook case of Fair Use, YouTube has decided to take down my re-edit of Disaster Movie. YouTube’s copyright dispute process goes something like this:
- Lionsgate flags video as infringing on their copyright, Youtube takes it down
- User responds explaining why it is actually totally not copyright infringement, video goes back up
- YouTube asks Lionsgate if they made a mistake, they say no, video goes down.
- To further the dispute, user has to mail a bunch of personal information along with a detailed account of why they are not infringing.
Putting the burden of proof on the side with least resources is bullshit.
In any case, I got to step 4 in the process and then realized that, “Wait! The friendly and awesome people at Dreamhost give me over 8 TB of bandwidth / month, I can just host it myself!”
Which I have.
So if you didn’t get a chance to see it before it was taken offline, check it out now!
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