Electronic Frontier Foundation To Protect Some YouTube Users Over Viacom’s DMCA Claims

News.com reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted a video over at YouTube named Were You Caught in the Viacom Takedown? In that video the EFF is asking those who have been falsely accused of posting Viacom copyrighted content on YouTube to contact them. As we reported the other week with YouTube Pulls Videos That […]

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News.com reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted a video over at YouTube named Were You Caught in the Viacom Takedown? In that video the EFF is asking those who have been falsely accused of posting Viacom copyrighted content on YouTube to contact them.

As we reported the other week with YouTube Pulls Videos That May Not Violate DMCA Law some of the 100,000 videos YouTube removed based on Viacom’s DMCA requests included videos that did not fall under Viacom’s copyright claims. EFF’s attorney said, “It may make more sense to go to court to assert your rights.”


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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