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No Summary Judgment for Fair Use Issue in Takedown Notice
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California refused to grant summary judgment to either party in a suit filed by Stephanie Lenz alleging Universal Music lacked a good faith belief when it sent a takedown notice to YouTube complaining that a video Lenz posted of her son dancing to the Prince composition “Let's Go Crazy” was an unauthorized use of the song copyright. Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., 5:07-cv-03783. Lenz claims the takedown notice amounted to a “material misrepresentation” under '512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, because Universal didn't engage in a fair-use analysis before writing YouTube. District Judge Jeremy Fogel noted: “While it agrees that requiring a copyright holder to engage in a full-blown fair use analysis prior to sending a DMCA takedown notice would be inconsistent with the remedial purposes of the statute, ' a copyright owner must make at least an initial assessment as to whether the fair use doctrine applies to the use in question in order to make a good faith representation that the use is not 'authorized by law.'” But Judge Fogel added: “Lenz presents substantial evidence that Universal did not consider explicitly whether her video made fair use of Prince's song before it sent the Takedown Notice.”
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