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There's been a lot of talk lately about Fair Use and freebooting with the recent Fine Bros scandal, SoFlo vs h3h3, and the terrible content ID system YouTube uses all causing controversy. For those of you who don't know, Fair Use is an exception to copyright law that allows people to use copyrighted work in a narrow way for educational/review/parody purposes. Freebooting is taking content somebody else has made and reproducing it outside of the margins of Fair Use such as uploading entire unedited segments of a show, and reuploading videos without permission or giving credit. Here's vids that go into more detail about freebooting for those who care:
Doug Walker aka The Nostalgia Critic made an interesting video that's getting #WTFU trending as a way to explain Fair Use and how content creators are being boned by YouTube's system:


There's a lot of money around this problem centered around both the issues of piracy and YouTube being paid off in a favor for the promotion Music and Television industries, so this could very well effect online content the way SOPA would have. Progress has been made by the Fine Bros backpedaling on their trademark scheme, and SoFlo having his channel temp banned w/ a lot of videos deleted, but there's still major shenanigans going on; especially with Facebook trying to test monetization with SoFlo's freebooted content. Has anybody else been following all of this? What's everyone else think?

Copyright claims have been a problem for years.

I remember watching videos about the VenomFangX religious controversy back in December 2009, which involved him copyright claiming videos he opposed if they contained some of his content. He flagged them in self defense and not because of copyright, and he admitted it!

I haven't checked if anyone recently has been flagging videos out of self defense, but the system is set up so that at least really big channels are able to do it.

mechamind wrote:I remember watching videos about the VenomFangX religious controversy back in December 2009, which involved him copyright claiming videos he opposed if they contained some of his content. He flagged them in self defense and not because of copyright, and he admitted it!

This is basically what's happening except replace VenomFangX with Derek Savage or the huge businesses going after people.