YouTomb - YouTube Copyright Takedown Watchdog
YouTomb is a research project monitoring videos taken down by YouTube for alleged copyright infringement. YouTomb was built by MIT Free Culture, a student organization at MIT.
YouTomb captures the metadata for the videos including any information on the reason for take-down "including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown."
YouTomb creators state that they wanted to track how YouTube identifies possible violations based on a special algorithm in order to spot aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm. For example, are mistakes made or videos that meet fair use exemptions flagged.
Link Via Jason Hammond's Head Tale
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