YouTube does, in fact, have a program to defend fair use, and they reject DMCA notices in those cases. But it's expensive and they can't do it in every case. La

YouTube does, in fact, have a program to defend fair use, and they reject DMCA notices in those cases. But it's expensive and they can't do it in every case. Lawyers are expensive. YouTube gets sued enough by idiots who think the DMCA safe harbor doesn't apply for whatever reason. Anyway, I disagree that YouTube doesn't need the safe harbor. If they had to pay a lawyer for a minute of time for every DMCA request received, they'd lose money. YouTube did innovate. They created a system for the largest content creators which automated complaints and created a special appeals process, which discourages DMCA complaints. They also placed protections on this program and ban people from it that submit too many false complaints.