Source: http://www.kinney.com/blog/2015/11/01/fair-use-avoids-takedown/
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 01:04:49+00:00

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In Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., Nos. 13-16106 and 16107 (9th Cir. Sept. 14, 2015), a panel of the 9th Circuit held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) requires a copyright holder to consider fair use before sending a takedown notice to an online service provider, like YouTube® or Google®. Failure to consider fair use, the court determined, raises a triable offense issue as to whether the copyright holder formed a subjective good faith belief that the use was authorized by law.
The claim arose when Universal Music Corp. sent a takedown notice to YouTube to remove a video uploaded by Stephanie Lenz. The 29-second video, entitled “Let’s Go Crazy’ #1”, showed Lenz’s two young children dancing to the song Let’s go Crazy by Prince. YouTube removed the video after notification from Universal and told Lenz on June 5, 2007. Two days later, Lenz sent a counter-notification to YouTube, seeking to reverse the removal of her video. Universal protested and reasserted that the video infringed its copyright. Universal, however, failed to mention fair use. Lenz sued Universal under 17 U.S.C. §512(f) of the DMCA, alleging that Universal misrepresented that her video was infringing its copyright. That section of the DMCA allows an accused infringer to collect damages, including attorneys’ fees.
17 U.S.C. §512(c) sets forth the DMCA’s takedown procedures, which allow service providers to avoid copyright infringement liability for removing allegedly infringing material after receiving a takedown notice. 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)(A)(v) requires that a takedown notice include, among other things, a statement of a good faith belief that the allegedly infringing use is “not authorized by the copyright holder, its agent, or the law.” 17 U.S.C. §512(f), under which Lenz sued, provides that anyone who knowingly misrepresents that a material or activity is infringing may be liable.
Thus, the court held that fair use is an authorization under law for the purposes of 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)(A)(v).

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