<story><title>UMG claims &quot;right to block or remove&quot; YouTube videos it doesn&apos;t own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-the-right-to-block-or-remove-youtube-videos.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeknoop</author><text>There are still questions concerning the Tech News Today takedown issue. From the article:&lt;p&gt;UMG&apos;s response also sheds some light on another mystery: why Monday&apos;s issue of Tech News Today was yanked from YouTube. When UMG removes a video via YouTube&apos;s CMS, a &quot;reference file&quot; is created that &quot;in theory is supposed to identify other instances of postings of the same content.&quot; UMG speculates that this &quot;reference file&quot; system was responsible for the accidental removal from YouTube of a Tech News Today episode featuring the Megaupload video.&lt;p&gt;Now, this is plausible why TNT was taken down the first time. TNT then issued a counter-complaint and was put back online shortly thereafter. Finally, it was removed AGAIN in accordance to the DMCA because (according to the speculation on how this works) UMG confirmed that the content in question which was originally removed did infringe.&lt;p&gt;UMG cannot hide behind the &quot;accidental&quot; TNT takedown if they personally &lt;i&gt;confirmed&lt;/i&gt; it twice to be infringing.</text></comment>
<story><title>UMG claims &quot;right to block or remove&quot; YouTube videos it doesn&apos;t own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-the-right-to-block-or-remove-youtube-videos.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>X-Istence</author><text>Except that when the video gets taken down YouTube says it was on copyright grounds, not only that but when you get such a takedown letter it specifically mentions the DMCA (or at least in the one case a client of mine received such a letter due to using a 30 second clip from a song as background music) and your rights associated with the DMCA including the ability to state that it is fair use.&lt;p&gt;If YouTube did agree to letting UMG basically control content uploaded to YouTube they have basically given them the ability to silence any and all opposition to UMG on YouTube with the single click of a button.</text></comment>