[tomsaffell]

I'd love to hear what people think about this statement (from the article):

The system should not remove videos unless there is a match between the video and audio tracks of a submitted fingerprint. ... (Some will point out that this implies that record labels and music publishers can never use the Content ID tool to remove videos solely based on what's in the audio track. That's right. I think that adding a soundtrack to your home skateboarding movie is a fair use

I have had several video that fall into this category removed from Facebook (but not YT) for copyright infringement.

Should we (home users) be allowed to use copyrighted tracks as backing audio for our home movies? (I dont mean 'is it legal today?', I mean, 'should it be legal?')

[arebop]

What if the home movie consists of a completely black frame? Wouldn't a blanket exemption for home movies effectively allow unlimited reproduction and distribution of audio files? For this reason, I think a blanket exemption would involve a radical transformation of copyright.

At least one of Lessig's books point out that the subjective fringes of laws together with the court system provide very useful legal flexibility for problems such as this. No one has described a feasible means of achieving both full automation and justice in a legal system, so it's better for automated enforcement mechanisms to err on the side of liberty and to let mistakes be corrected in the courts.