{"id":243289,"date":"2026-08-28T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/court-backs-dmca-takedown-of-public-meeting-videos"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:23:40","slug":"court-backs-dmca-takedown-of-public-meeting-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/court-backs-dmca-takedown-of-public-meeting-videos","title":{"rendered":"Court Backs DMCA Takedown of Public Meeting Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/court-backs-dmca-takedown-of-public-meeting-videos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The case concerns a local news outlet in Massachusetts that had its YouTube channel taken down because of videos it posted about local government meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Waltham had outsourced the recording of its meetings to a contractor, Waltham Community Access Corporation (WCAC), and it was this entity that sent the DMCA notices to YouTube, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/press\/releases\/journalists-sue-massachusetts-tv-corporation-over-bogus-youtube-takedown-demands\">targeting 15 videos<\/a> on the Channel 781 News outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case concerns a local news outlet in Massachusetts that had its YouTube channel taken down because of videos it posted about local government meetings. The city of Waltham had outsourced the recording of its meetings to a contractor, Waltham Community Access Corporation (WCAC), and it was this entity that sent the DMCA notices to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}