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YouTube has faced numerous challenges and criticisms in its attempts to deal with copyright, including the site's first viral video, Lazy Sunday, which had to be taken due to copyright concerns. [4] At the time of uploading a video, YouTube users are shown a message asking them not to violate copyright laws. [5]
On March 12, 2007, Viacom sued YouTube, demanding $1 billion in damages, said that it had found more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of its material on YouTube that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times". YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works".
Permission: Who or what law or policy gives permission to post on Wikipedia with the selected image copyright tag; Date the image was created, if available; a full date, if available, is better than simply the year; Location at which the image was created, if applicable and available. This can be as specific as a GPS-derived longitude and latitude.
YouTube's own practice is to issue a "YouTube copyright strike" on the user accused of copyright infringement. [1] When a YouTube user gets hit with a copyright strike, they are required to watch a warning video about the rules of copyright and take trivia questions about the danger of copyright. [2] A copyright strike will expire after 90 days.
Paramount Pictures uploaded the entirety of Mean Girls (2004) onto TikTok in October 2023. [11] For the 2023 New Zealand general election, the Green Party used footage from Barbie (2023) to criticize the National and Labour parties. The Green Party confirmed that they did not have copyright permission from Warner Bros.
Viral post claims Facebook can use your photo without permission and that you have to post a notice on your page to stop it. The viral post is wrong.
Filming someone in the wrong place could land you in serious legal trouble.
Example: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or later Some people have complained that the GFDL is too hard to interpret and too hard for reusers of small works to comply with because the license can be longer than the work covered by the license.