At our event "what goes up must come down" on Friday I said we needed to learn to do fair, fast food style--noting that the problem of overreaching by copyright owners is by far smaller in scale and scope than the problem of massive infringement.

An experiment proceeds with notice-and-take-down and fair use.

Note, however: the clip is up for five days before it is taken down. That's actually quite a lag.

Furthermore, note--this isn't a good case of copyright owners exaggerating their claims, which is what the prof was using it to illustrate. If we share the prof's assumption that this was a bot, this is more like a case of technology just not working well enough to identify fair use. For every hit that the technology gets, there are lots of misses. Would those make the case that the copyright owner is overly hesitant about claims? Apparently not.

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