Viacom sent 100,000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube users recently, according to EFF, in a kind of dragnet operation targeted against use of Viacom-copyrighted material, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Among the 60 mistakes they have so far admitted were a home-video filmed in a BBQ joint and a music video about karaoke in Singapore.
Though these videos were obvious mistakes, the EFF is concerned that other fair-uses of Viacom material will not be admitted as mistakes.
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