Though they can be seen as “voodoo charms”, so can the ubiquitous “all rights reserved”, and even meaningful public copyright licenses can be seen as such to the extent they are misunderstood or totemic. But there are variations that might not be picked up by the queries Baio used, including for example two of the descriptions I posted a few days ago.Īlthough they’re probably completely useless in preventing automated takedowns and in court (though it’s not entirely clear they ought be useless in either case), as expression they’re at the very least interesting, and perhaps more. I don’t know how many videos were on YouTube 3 months ago, but yesterday an empty query claimed 567,000,000 today I’ve seen 537,000,000 and 550,000,000 - maybe on the order of 1% of videos have some sort of copyright disclaimer. Yesterday for me, “no copyright” obtained 906,000, while today YouTube has said both 972,000 and 3,850,000 to the same query. Those numbers may have grown significantly in the last nearly 3 months, but should be taken with a huge grain of salt. He noted 489,000 and 664,000 results for the queries "no copyright" and "copyright" "section 107". It seems this phrase is primarily an anti-SOPA expression rather than an admonition to not take down whatever video is described.Īndy Baio pointed out late last year that disclaimers of intent to infringe others’ copyrights and claims of fair use frequently appear in the descriptions of videos on YouTube. Currently the first autocompletion result upon typing “no copyright” into YouTube’s search is “no copyright law in the universe is going to stop me”, which is apparently a string used in the description of 108 videos on YouTube, and the title of at least one.
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