Fighting YouTube for Fair Use

Apropos of our post (and Jeremy's reply) below on the conflicting set of interests surrounding current fair use provisions for scholars on many video sharing services, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports today on one scholar's challenge to YouTube's restriction of fair use. Wendy Seltzer, a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School and former lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recently received a DMCA takedown notice from the service after she posted, for classroom use, a brief clip containing the copyright warning that the NFL attached to the broadcast of the Super Bowl. Seltzer, for her part, is fighting back. But the ironies involved in the supposed copyright violation resulting from the reproduction of a copyright notice are too rich not to notice.