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In this clip from a 2007 American Bar Association Forum titled “Legal and Business Issues in the New Internet World of User Generated Content & Social Networking,” panelist Zahava Levine discusses how her company – YouTube – works with copyright holders to protect and restrict copyrighted works from being disseminated, and how she and her staff approach the task of educating and guiding YouTube users in the differences between theft of intellectual property, fair use, and original content. She also shares her legal perspectives on the DMCA and how that act’s “fair harbor” provisions work in practice to protect services like internet service providers and content delivery portals like YouTube.