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Guess Whose YouTube Channel Works Again?
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Mark Stevenson
(IC: employee)
Published: March 5th, 2016
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YouTube has finally processed our counterclaim to Volkswagen’s claim of copyright infringement. And guess what? YouTube’s copyright bots decided in our favor! I’m right chuffed about it.
What does that mean? Well, not so much for you, but it means we can do our jobs a bit more effectively. Also, it means David can still take on Goliath — and win.
It’s been over a month since we made our counterclaim against Volkswagen’s copyright infringement claim. Google’s Search servers might be lightning fast, but its process for sorting out a copyright claim for YouTube is arduously slow.
To celebrate our win, enjoy this soothing, Volkswagen infotainment B-roll. Ohhhh yeah.
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"video_link": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/DYhp9yOQ4zk",
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"width": 634,
"height": 357,
"showRelated": true
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This is increasingly becoming an issue as YT has to deal with more and more videos uploaded every minute. So for a short briefing: Youtube implemented this system in response to taking away their responsibility for the DMCA (a Republican favorite for you right-wingers out there). It isn't that the law is awful, it is to some extent, but rather that Google's solution is really awful. Basically they automated the system to bring down the copyright infringers faster and they do bring down SCORES OF THEM. The constant barrage of illegal posting is an issue but in the same breath sites like TTAC can be trolled by corporations for violations. It doesn't mean that TTAC can't or doesn't violate the rules at times but there needs to be a clear and separate path for 'official' channels that are accepted as monetized entities and present themselves as upright actors. This is happening to scores of internet reviewers, video game lets players, and the like that use established media to create new and interesting works. Until Youtube fixes this new trolls are going to spring up to steal revenue (since they allow all monetization to go to them until it gets reversed instead of escrow) and corporations are going to aggressively abuse it to the point where they'll continue to silence views they dislike.
To add to Xeranar's post, there is (are) companies that do exactly this as a form of business - the file a copyright infringement claim against a channel and have it taken down while they then profit from the monetization of the same video. It takes Youtube MONTHS to resolve the claim, resulting in loss of revenue for the original channel and a boon for the trolling company. Said company does this against a multitude of channels, even if the content is purely original.