See my several posts above about the fact that there is, by law, a threat of punishment for standing up to accusers. Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronologyĪnd herein lays the problem.
Copyright law’s flaws are subtle but exhibit themselves most prominently in cases of false copyright claims. You have to pay attention to enforcement in practice, not just the text as it’s written. Flawed laws don’t always have specific provisions which on their own clearly support or work against the public interest. If you have been reading copyright-related articles on Techdirt for a while, even if you were to presume that the writers of copyright law (that includes judges, because case law is law!) had the public interest in mind, you should have seen by now that copyright law consistently fosters abuse. The former choice could land YouTube in court, while the latter would generate little more than temporary public outrage. Case law outcomes, absurdly large potential damages, and lack of penalties for false copyright claims skew so far in favor of large, rich copyright holders that online websites which host user-generated content have little incentive to assume that claims under the DMCA are wrong, but every incentive to assume that the takedown claims are correct. In fact, copyright law in practice leans the opposite way. There is no such presumption in civil cases.
The presumption of innocence only applies to criminal cases. In point of fact, there is no provision in any part of the copyright act, as now implemented, that supercedes the fact that an accused is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. Collapse replies (2) Reply View in chronology (And to be sure, there was a very large heap of money involved in that decision, make no mistake.) It’s enough to make a grown man cry. It was too easy to simply state the bogus law wasn’t bogus, and carry on as instructed. The YouTubes of the world should’ve stuck up for their contributors and told the “gatekepeers” to buzz off, and if they persist, YT (and others) will simply go to court and proclaim that they aren’t the police, aren’t the prosecutors, and most certainly aren’t the judges and juries, that they have no business being such, and that any law attempting to deputize them into acting as such is null and void on its face.īut no, websites (read: big business) couldn’t be bothered. But that would’ve required a decent amount of public spiritedness, and some time in court. , “it does not give them any reason for rejecting a claim.”Īctually, it did. When it’s gotten bad enough that the gaming industry goes in on this “horror show” this hard, it’s probably time for the folks over at YouTube to start paying attention.įiled Under: copyright, copyright troll, counterstrike, dmca
#Youtube dmca Pc#
PC Gamer isn’t some minor publication, after all. Maybe YouTube is simply so big that it doesn’t care about any of this, but I find that hard to believe. It’s really nothing new at this point, just another example of how disingenuous people and automated systems have turned YouTube into a horror show of copyright claims and stolen income from monetized videos. Instead, the platform has built such a reputation for being terrible on this sort of thing, the end result is the appearance that YouTube is relying on apathy among the public to get away with it. And YouTube hasn’t seemed particularly interested in solving that problem. If the copyright enforcement mechanisms for YouTube are so wide open for this kind of fuckery, then that’s a problem. Everyone who has looked at this believes this is just a troll causing trouble for whatever twisted reasons they have.īut that’s the entire point. It seems pretty clear that this has nothing to do with the music or lyrics present in the video.
#Youtube dmca serial#
For my opinion, at least, this is in fact just someone engaging in widespread copyright fraud: Another YouTuber named 3kliksphilip has identified(opens in new tab) that this is a serial offense for that account. Politely, in his statement(opens in new tab) KinetiK001 says that the claimant is a copyright troll. Bob Tik, apparently, says that the game audio of Door Stuck is their own original music. Well, after existing peacefully for those fifteen years, the clip was suddenly the subject of a DMCA takedown, as explained by PC Gamer.Īfter nearly 24 million views, however, the video has been hijacked by someone who’s claiming the audio copyright on it.
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