Reading through this article in Ars about UMG claiming "right to block or remove" YouTube videos it doesn't own I’ve come to conclusion that no one understands copyright and the laws that define it.
UMG has requested a video be taken down that it doesn’t own but thinks it has a right to do so but not under the DMCA.
In other words, when UMG removes a video using YouTube’s CMS, that might be a takedown, but it’s not a DMCA takedown. And that, UMG argues, means that the DMCA’s rule against sending takedown requests for files you don’t own doesn’t apply.
Got that?
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