@blakeyrat said:
I used to be a staunch supporter of copyright. After seeing the kind of pain inflicted on the average joe by YouTube's buggy, badly-designed, full-of-scammers ContentID system, I'm rapidly changing my mind.Why should your views on copyright change because YouTube voluntarilly implemented a broken system that enforces big contents warped view of copyright? YouTube's contentID system doesn't actually understand copyright law, it doesn't understand fair use, it doesn't understand public domain, it doesn't understand production music libraries/licences, etc.
@Ben L. said:
YouTube shouldn't even HAVE automated copyright checking. If a company notices that it's losing money because of a video, there's already DMCA. YouTube seems to think anything displayed on any TV show is completely owned by that TV show.YouTube's ContentID system is simlply a concession for big content, YouTube has no legal responsabilty to implement the system (though it could have be part of a settlement with viacom, but i don't know,) but YouTube bent to the will of big content, and now we have automated system trampling on the rights of users!
@blakeyrat said:
Do I want to dispute this copyright match?Yes; its it sounds like your video falls under fair use (most reviews would), so unless you know you did something out of bounds it's probably safe to dispute. By that I mean you know the contentID system is broken with respect to fair use, you know your video is almost certianly fair use, and you seem to have discovered that X-PLAY is a review show.
BTW the definiton of Perjury is "The willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry." (emphasis added) I highly doubt that disputing the contentID with good faith that your use is fair, could ever be construed as perjury; however I am not a lawyer.