YouTube has several tools that copyright owners can use to protect and manage their copyrighted content on YouTube. Copyright management tools are designed for different types of creators, from occasional uploaders to established media companies.
Everyone with a YouTube Account has access to our copyright takedown webform. If your copyright-protected work is uploaded without your permission, you can use our webform to submit a copyright takedown to request the content be taken down from YouTube.
To find the right tool for your frequent copyright management needs, start by filling out this form. Make sure you're signed in with the same YouTube account you've previously used to submit takedown requests through our webform.
The Copyright Match Tool can automatically identify videos that are copies or potential copies of other videos on YouTube. The tool finds videos that match other videos that were already uploaded to YouTube or taken down due to a takedown request. Once matches are found, you can choose actions to take, such as:
If you often need to remove content and have previously submitted many valid takedown requests, you may be eligible for our Content Verification Program. The program gives copyright owners a tool to search for content they believe is infringing and request takedowns for many videos at once.
Content ID is available to copyright owners with the most complex copyright management needs, such as record labels or movie studios. To qualify for Content ID, copyright owners must have previously submitted many valid takedown requests and have the resources to manage Content ID, among other criteria.
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It would seem to me, though, that if you had a uniform template at the head of every file .. a VCS hook could be used to automatically do that for you. I'm sure someone has done that, but a quick search didn't yield anything.
The purpose of the year in a copyright statement is to indicate when the copyright started for that file/version of software/etc. It's actually in your best interest to only insert new copyright dates for new files and new distributions. The reason for this is simple:
Company A develops software in complete isolation from Company B. Because there's only so many ways to think about a problem, they both come up with a similar solution for some feature. Through a blog entry or something Company B finds out that Company A is probably in violation of a copyright so they decide to sue (ever hear of SCO?). Company B keeps updating their copyright notices with the advancing years, but Company A leaves them alone. When the lawyers examine code and see Company A's copyright date before Company B's copyright date, they will realize that it just might be that Company B is in violation.
That said, the date in the copyright notice is a legally weak indicator of when something was copyrighted--particularly since it is so easily changed. Registering your copyright with the government is a legally strong indicator of the copyright date. Most government agencies don't verify whether you are already in violation because they don't have the resources for that. Instead, if there is a violation the one with the earlier registered copyright usually wins. Most lawyers and courts will refuse any case that does not involve registered copyrights because they are so difficult to prove.
I maintain an open source project, and I needed to insert and manage copyright notices at the top of all code files. Also, certain sections of the code are released under different licenses, so it was a bit complex. I wrote an application that goes through my source code, finds applicable files and first inserts some commented XML start/end tags where the copyright header should be if it doesn't exist. Then the app goes through again and replaces everything within the header tags with the correct copyright notice for that library.
I've seen a whole range of approaches, though the one that seemed least work to me, at least from a development perspective, was to make them dynamic and have the code automatically just add the current year every time the page was generated.
Blockchain, smart contracts and copyright management disruption. The article examines the differences between new, blockchain and smart contract-based private ordering regime and the fundamental components of copyright law, such as exceptions and limitations, the doctrine of exhaustion, restrictions on formalities, the public domain and fair remuneration.
Effective, early management of copyright rights can be critical to a smooth transition of your work from academia to commercialization. Licensing opportunities may be stalled or thwarted if UW does not have the necessary rights to license/distribute your work to third parties, which may affect ultimate success and revenue back to UW.
Copyright rights exist at the moment the work is created and fixed in a tangible form (even if on your hard drive). Thus, your work does not need to be officially registered with the US Copyright Office to enjoy copyright protection. An official registration provides certain legal presumptions and greater remedies if a third party infringes your work. CoMotion may file a copyright registration application in your work, depending on the circumstances and the type of work. Your Innovation Manager can discuss this option with you.
Federal registration of a copyright is not required to have copyright rights. Federal registration is required to bring an infringement action, however, and it provides specific presumptions and damages. Registration of University materials is not always necessary or appropriate.
While none of these directly relate to each other, they certainly have gotten me thinking about the complexities of copyright, content ownership and the digital, remixable world we live in, where everyone can be a creator and publisher. Current copyright laws (in Australia) were not designed for this environment. When laws are updated (as in the European Union), we still do not see nuanced approaches to managing the situation. Protecting copyright using filters and blanket licencing (all rights reserved) does not seem to provide the nuanced response that we need to serve the purposes of both those who (deservedly) want to protect their income derived from content creation, and those who want to create avenues through which it may be shared.
In Australia, part of the complexities of copyright are alleviated for teachers through Statutory and Voluntary Licences which enable some flexibility for educational purposes. We in Australia do not have access to the doctrine of Fair Use and so we rely upon these licences to enable us to share copyrighted materials in ways not normally permissible for the purposes of teaching and learning. However these licences require that materials and content are restricted (eg by use of a password) to teachers and students. In the days when the classroom had four walls, and students published their work to the pinboard, this restriction did not pose any hurdles. Even the introduction of computers and learning management systems did not pose problems as they created digital walls for the classroom. However as these walls crumble, and we embrace the fact that students (and teachers) use, publish to and create in openly accessible platforms on the WWW, restricting learning to this closed environment becomes a much greater challenge.
I personally have a strong interest in copyright, but a strong interest is not enough to render the complicated lawyer speak and legalese of changing copyright conditions clear. For those less interested, it probably seems even more impenetrable, and time poor educators (understandably) place it far down their list of things to do and learn.
2nd is take some time (I know! what time!) to familiarise yourself with the world of the Public Domain and Creative Commons licencing. It is not that complicated, I promise, and once you invest this time, you will be so empowered! A quick overview of the Public Domain and Creative Commons is available here and you can download a printable overview and infographics which you can print for your library or workplace here and here.
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