Lawprof Wendy Seltzer runs an experiment:
My First YouTube: Super Bowl Highlights or Lowlights
I snipped the copyright warning out of the weekend’s Super Bowl broadcast as an example for my copyright class of how far copyright claimants exaggerate their rights.
This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent, is prohibited.
Let’s see whether the video, clear fair use, gets flagged by a copyright bot.
Update: My First DMCA Takedown, a mere 5 days later.
Prof. Seltzer discusses this further here., as well as notes the possibility of a § 512(a) counter-notification that may get the clip put back up; I didn’t see any discussion in the post of whether she had indeed filed the counter-notification, and when results might be expected. Thanks to John Perkins for the pointer.
UPDATE: Prof. Seltzer reports further:
The clip was about 30 seconds: the copyright warning intoned over a montage of football helmets and portraits and a few seconds of uneventful football after. I believed the fair-use case was good enough to counter-notify that the takedown must have been mistake or misidentification. I sent that on Feb. 14, so the 10-14 business days of 512(g)(2)(C) is up in early March.