If you paste that funny clip you saw on MTV on your Facebook, MTV can shut down Facebook or sue you.
Video is an interesting case since much of it is explicitly embeddable; you can't encourage embedding and then call it copyright infringement.
Video is an interesting case since much of it is explicitly embeddable; you can't encourage embedding and then call it copyright infringement.
All they need to do is can claim "infringement" without having to prove anything, without any obligation of fairness, correctness, and no penalty when wrong. After that your website is taken offline, your income is frozen, your income disappears and only then you may sue to get it all back, without any possibility of being compensated for your time and expenses.
The problem is that there is no neutral, objective oversight before damage is done and no compensation of damages caused by wrongful enforcement, which leaves us without protection against overzealous, perhaps even full automated, enforcement.