Mystery surrounds Universal's takedown of Megaupload YouTube video
Found on CNet News on Saturday, 17 December 2011
The video was back up after UMG failed to assert valid ownership rights, but the company is now saying it never claimed copyright ownership. Even though UMG used YouTube's automated tools for copyright owners to request takedowns under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, UMG says in a new court document that it wasn't claiming a DMCA violation.
"UMG is now claiming that it has a private, automated censorship right--supported by a secret process that can take down any YouTube video with immunity from the DMCA--and there is nothing that this Court could do about it," he wrote in a court filing today.
So UMG uses a DMCA tool from Youtube to remove a video it has no rights to, but points out it's not because of a DMCA violation while refusing to explain the reason for the takedown. I'm not a lawyer, but I guess a judge won't like this explanation.