Holly Holm If you frequent any of the gathering places for MMA fans on the Internet, chances are this has happened to you more than once. You click on a link to a highlight video or a technical breakdown, or maybe even just a clip with a few seconds of last weekend’s fight, only to have the worldwide web tell you that it’s no longer available due to a copyright violation. If you’re on YouTube, you might be told that the owner of the content – most likely the UFC, but also sometimes Bellator – “has blocked it on copyright grounds.” If you feel like you’re seeing these notices more often in recent months, you’re not alone. The UFC has long been an aggressive pursuer of copyright claims, though in years past it seemed to focus the bulk of its anti-piracy efforts on stopping illegal streams of its events. Lately, however, the focus seems to have shifted somewhat
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As UFC cracks down on unauthorized footage use, questions of ‘fair use’ arise – MMA Junkie