{"id":113783,"date":"2014-11-08T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=113783"},"modified":"2014-11-08T11:09:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T09:09:42","slug":"youtube-copyright-policy-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/113783-youtube-copyright-policy-revised.html","title":{"rendered":"YouTube copyright policy revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has amended a form used to resolve copyright disputes after the operators of a German web channel received death threats.<\/p>\n<p>The threats by alleged Islamic extremists came after Al Hayat TV, operated by former Muslims, was told by YouTube to respond to a claim of copyright infringement or risk being shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Al Hayat presenter Barino Barsoum says the form required a contact name and address, and efforts to contact YouTube for clarification were fruitless.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for YouTube&#8217;s owner Google said Friday it takes users&#8217; privacy very seriously but is compelled to act by U.S. copyright law if an infringement is suspected.<\/p>\n<p>Mounira Latrache says Al Hayat could have entered the contact details of a lawyer instead, and the form has been revised to highlight this option.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More YouTube news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/110254-top-youtube-ads-in-south-africa.html\">Top YouTube ads in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/109742-facebook-wants-youtubes-stars.html\">Facebook wants YouTube\u2019s stars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/107146-warrant-of-arrest-for-youtube-road-rager.html\">YouTube road rager skips court, earns warrant of arrest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has amended a form used to resolve copyright disputes after the operators of a German web channel received death threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":107116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,2340,2150],"class_list":["post-113783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-copyright","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}