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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 Youtube, even with Team Four Star, who put a disclaimer at the beginning of every episode they post. The Warner Music Group has also been responsible for taking away music from videos, saying that it's violating copyright. When the user gets hit with a Copyright strike, They would be sent to ''[[Happy Tree Friends|Youtube Copyright School]]'' and would watch the lecture video about the law of copyright and take trivia questions.
** Certain videos have managed to avoid this fate by claiming Fair Use.
** [[YouTube]] has come under fire for the fact that they remove videos just because of an infringement claim without investigating whether the video is Fair Use or not. [[YouTube]], and "Content Service Providers" in general, are required by law to pull without investigation as soon as they receive proper notice, or else they themselves can be [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Sued By The Lawyers]]. Uploaders can object to cases of "mistake or misidentification", in other words claiming that the copyright owner made a mistake when it failed to see that "it's legal Fair Use, damn it!"
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* Like many radio show hosts, Phil Hendrie allows website subscribers to download show episodes as podcasts. At some point, network lawyers decided that it was a copyright violation for podcasts to include music. This affected any skits that involved music, including his frequent parodies of Jim Rome's and [[Coast to Coast AM|Art Bell]]'s shows that incorporated their respective "[[Guns N' Roses|Welcome to the Jungle]]" and "[[ABBA|Dancing Queen]]" theme songs, and his [[Running Gag]] of using the "Darth Vader Death March" as theme music for his fictional boss. The music in these cases was replaced by awkward silence, and if characters in Phil's comedy skits commented on the music, podcast listeners could not know what they were talking about.
* Some flashes on [[Newgrounds]] are victims of this due to being based on copyrighted works, as Newgrounds has received [http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/legal.html cease-and-detest letters] from companies such as [[The BBC]] (for a ''[[Teletubbies]]'' spoof called "Teletubby Fun Land", which has been eventually renamed to "Tele''bubby'' Fun Land"), [[Jim Henson|The Jim Henson Company]], and [[MGM]] (for a ''[[RoboCop]]'' flash tribute made by a fan).
== Newspaper Comics ==
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