For a few truly bad DMCA takedowns, YouTube offers to cover legal costs

[tangra]

 
Google is starting to protect some videos legally under fair sure.
Meaining for the first time, YouTube is protecting its content creator again takedown request on videos that genuinly follows fair use properly.

As Google themselves put it,  

More than 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Some of those uploads make use of existing content, like music or TV clips, in new and transformative ways that have social value beyond the original (such as a parody or critique). In the U.S. this activity is often protected by fair use, a crucial exception to copyright law which can help discussion and creativity across different mediums to continue flourishing.

 

Ars Technica reports that, 

first four videos in the program were made by a game reviewer, a UFO debunker, an Ohio pro-choice group, and a commentator and comedian.

 

The Game reviewer in question is, Jim Sterling, who also made a JIMQUISITION video about it. 
It's important to note that the legal video protection is only in the US, so the videos are restricted only in the US. 
 
In more specifics, Google is ready to put up to a million dollars in legal fees if the people issuing the takedowns decide to go to court. 
 
Sources:
1-  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/youtube-offers-to-pay-legal-fees-for-some-challenged-fair-use-videos/
2- http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.ca/2015/11/a-step-toward-protecting-fair-use-on.html?m=1
3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-UgOXP82UI

[Castdeath97]

Finally! How long did it take them to fix this exploit.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Cover legal costs ? how about not blocking them without proof instead? what about the small time uploaders who are not located in US and its neighboring ?

[Master Disaster]

...snip...

It's also protected under law in most of Europe too.

[The Benjamins]

Cover legal costs ? how about not blocking them without proof instead? what about the small time uploaders who are not located in US and its neighboring ?

 

the legal cost if the people that requested to take down the video go after the video uploader. also their are so many video takedowns you have to use a automated system to judge them, and that is not always easy.

[Pesmerga]

Too bad they are visible just in the us, unavailable for me

 

But Jim also explained that in his new jumquisition video.

 

[Prysin]

about fucking time someone made a move against the DMCA trolls

[Arty]

Cover legal costs ? how about not blocking them without proof instead? what about the small time uploaders who are not located in US and its neighboring ?

You need to look at this from youtubes point of view.

How many videos per day SECOND are uploaded......

 

YOUTUBE was one of the best ways to watch get any pirated stuff before. 

 

THey Don't have the option to ask then shoot. Only people i could see who wouldn't get the shoot then ask would be big trusted youtubers.

[Misanthrope]

Cover legal costs ? how about not blocking them without proof instead? what about the small time uploaders who are not located in US and its neighboring ?

 

That'd make a ton of sense....unlike anything remotely related to DMCA.

[RagnarokDel]

hell yes

[GoldSrc]

Well, at least this is a start, they took too long though.