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== New Media ==
* The phrase "this video has been removed due to a copyright claim from *insert name of company here*" has become a well known sight on
** Certain videos have managed to avoid this fate by claiming Fair Use.
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** One machinima short was completely muted by WMG specifically because of ''one short song clip'' used in the beginning of the video.
** Curiously, there is a pattern that tends to emerge with what gets pulled and what doesn't, even aside from some content owners being more stringent about it that others: TV shows and movies (''especially'' current ones) are the strictest, along with popular music (unless the artists ''deliberately'' use online distribution [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity|as free advertising]]). Music from other sources, though, tends to be less strictly enforced. Rarest of all to be cut are video game clips; since [[Captain Obvious|you can't actually play the game on YouTube]], each video game clip is basically a trailer the producers didn't have to pay for. Also, [[Fan Vid|AMVs]] are, for whatever reason, often kept in the same way [[Fanfic]] in general is rarely targeted, despite theoretically having two possible angry claimants.
** But since anyone can make a copyright claim, they don't need any proof that you are the copyright holder, and since they don't investigate any claims, anyone who just doesn't like someone's video or even a bot can file a false claim. To dispute the claim, you must provide unnecessary personal information (your full name, phone number, physical address, email address) meaning most people who are the victim of a false copyright claim would just not bother disputing. Even though
* The above was what caused [[That Guy With The Glasses]] to start its own site...and now many years later, when [[Obscurus Lupa]] and [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s reviews of ''[[The Room]]'' got pulled for this very reason, fans got ''pissed''.
** The Critic responded to the legal threats by posting a video that was basically an entire episode's worth of [[Take That]]s against the individuals responsible.
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