YouTube User Says High Court Review Of DMCA Fair Use Is Needed

Mealey's (June 9, 2017, 7:35 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a May 19 supplemental brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, filed in response to an amicus curiae brief filed by the U.S. government, a woman whose video was removed from YouTube for purported copyright violation, argues that her petition for certiorari should be granted to ensure that the safe harbor parameters of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), such as fair use, “are properly construed” (Stephanie Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., et al., No. 16-217, U.S. Sup.)....