"The highly popular online video service Vimeo announced Wednesday that it's introducing a new system called “Copyright Match” to automatically remove copyright-infringing videos from the site."
They made a note (http://vimeo.com/help/faq/legal-stuff/fair-use#how-is-fair-use-determined-what-are-the-four-factors) specifically about transformative works counting as fair use, so hopefully this won't affect the vidding community too much.
This article about this change from No Film School isn't as sensationalist as that Ars Technica article, which is disappointing on Ars Technica's part.
In short: Right now, the change isn't affecting already uploaded videos. It'll affect videos being uploaded to the site as of recent. So if you uploaded something prior to today, Vimeo isn't going to make you change or delete anything with copyrighted images and/or music yet. But if you try to upload a video today with copyrighted images and/or music, there's a strong possibility it might get flagged, and it might be an uphill battle to get it deemed "fair use" so it can stay on the site.
I don't trust Vimeo to host my old fan vids any longer before they come for them. From now on, until/unless Tumblr's policy changes, I'll host my videos on Tumblr instead.
Thanks for the clarification, it's really helpful to know info like this when you're trying to decide where to host content! It feels like a constant battle to find a video hosting site that won't take down your content, it's so incredibly frustrating.
I guess it was only a matter of time. Vidding & Vidders being squeezed out once again. Interesting to read here that it will not apply to existing vids just new uploads..... for now (channelling Umbridge)
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Date: 2014-05-22 01:23 pm (UTC)http://nofilmschool.com/2014/05/upload-vimeo-copyright-match-audible-magic/
In short: Right now, the change isn't affecting already uploaded videos. It'll affect videos being uploaded to the site as of recent. So if you uploaded something prior to today, Vimeo isn't going to make you change or delete anything with copyrighted images and/or music yet. But if you try to upload a video today with copyrighted images and/or music, there's a strong possibility it might get flagged, and it might be an uphill battle to get it deemed "fair use" so it can stay on the site.
I don't trust Vimeo to host my old fan vids any longer before they come for them. From now on, until/unless Tumblr's policy changes, I'll host my videos on Tumblr instead.
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