A victory for the smalls against the bigs: Copyright holders must actually check to see their rights are violated before crying foul. This means that Corporations like Universal cannot blanket companies like uTube to pull down every time someone uses a clip of a Prince song.

In a victory for small-time music copiers over the entertainment industry, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that copyright holders can’t order one of their songs removed from the Web without first checking to see if the excerpt was so small and innocuous that it was legal.