I had someone steal one of my videos on youtube. I reported it for infringement and it was taken down in 30 minutes. I found that pretty impressive.
A month ago one of my videos about a reported and fixed XSS vulnerability was taken down for violating some rules (it didn't say what rules exactly). I submitted an appeal and it was reinstated a few days later.
Several years ago one of my videos that used some public domain footage was taken down for copyright infringement. I appealed it saying the footage was in the public domain and they reinstated my video several days later.
Last year I uploaded some old footage onto Youtube.. the footage was from WW2 that was filmed by US Gov. I saved it from a site that went down in 2000s and wanted to put it up for my cousin who was studying WW2 in HS.
In less than 24 hours, there were 4 different copyright claims by various companies. Over a 20 min clip. They obviously didn't own the copyright but they were claiming the clip as their own and wanted cuts of revenue.
About two years ago I uploaded an animation that I did in Apple Motion and it used stock sounds and music from Apple. Within a day of upload, I received a copyright claim by some company and they demanded I remove audio.
From my brief experience with Youtube/Google's Content ID system and the way they do business, I'm really glad I don't have to deal with this mafia on a daily basis.
I uploaded a video to youtube, it got stolen by other people, I reported it, and the copy got taken down in about a day. They stole it again several more times, and then it was taken down in about 30 minutes after reporting. I can't really complain.
First to upload to youtube does not mean owner. What if something was uploaded to vimeo, or to a person's own website, then someone steals it and uploads it to youtube. Does that give the thief the right to take down all other copies? Or what if something is CC licensed like Big Buck Bunny, does that give the first person to upload to youtube the right to stop all other people uploading to youtube?
Can't say I'm surprised. I've had public domain videos on my channel taken down for copyright issues. All it takes is one jerk to spam takedown requests.
The company I work for builds websites for small and medium sized businesses throughout the US. For a period of about two years we would host a copy of a video that we made for the customer on YouTube and use it on customer websites. There came a point where a handful dissatisfied customers claimed infringement for some of these videos and our YouTube channel (thousands of videos) was terminated without appeal, even though the customer had always provided authorization and the contents for these videos. Fortunately we'd decided to self-host our videos before the channel was terminated but there were cases where we lost content that we'd created.
I used to have a Youtube channel where I posted videos of me playing the piano. I played mostly Mozart, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff compositions. I had around 40 videos in total. Sometime around 2014, I started getting DMCA takedown notices from various companies claiming copyright. I was getting one or two per week and I contested them and things were ruled into my favor. But then it started getting harder and harder to contest them and I even lost the ability to upload. It got so bad that one day several (3 or 4, don't remember anymore) notices were filed and Google didn't rule on them fast enough.
I had to close the channel because my account was locked for one full day and I couldn't do a thing. I had too many emails inside of Gmail and didn't want to lose them so I gave up. I'm still pissed about it and how Youtube and Google run things.
I always found it interesting that under YT rules content creators have the "3 strikes and you're banned" rule hanging over their heads but those who falsely claim copyright can do so with impunity. I still remember one company that ended up falsely claiming copyright over 10+ of my videos and they did so against one or two videos per week. Nothing was ever done about them.
Agreed, it's easy to report copyright (even if it is fake to take someone channel down) and its taken down immediately and they don't have a way to even appeal and get back.
While it's tough to report genuine cases like you mentioned.
Does this attack involve actual hacking, or is this yet another example of abuse of Youtube's poorly copyright protection system? For years now we've observed time and time again that it's trivial to abuse to censor content from real content producers.
Big Content loves to paint copyright violations as theft, but this abuse of copyright protection systems is the actual theft: the owner actually loses their content, and directly and provably loses the money they would have made on this content.
Depending on what you mean by support, when one of my youtube videos was falsely copyright claimed, I disputed it and the claim was removed. When another video was falsely flagged as violating a rule, I disputed it and the flag was removed. When someone started repeatedly stealing my videos and uploading them to their own channels, I reported them for copyright infringement, and the first time it took 1 day to be taken down, subsequent claims only took 30 minutes for the takedown.
I had no idea the YouTube DMCA system was so skewed towards the entity claiming. This highlights at least two issues:
* Someone can claim copyright, and it goes into effect immediately, but a fraudulent claim is only forfeited after a 30-60 day grace period.
* Some can perform multiple claims at once, but you can only appeal claims one at a time.
I expect it happens about 100 times / day - most just don't make it to here. I've had a false copyright claim on a video I posted - it was a recording of a church service where a historic hymn was sung - out of copyright years ago. The algorithm matched it to another recording of the same tune, but different words, and they claimed copyright. I clicked the appeal button, and explained that it was out of copyright. I heard nothing back.
As the video was only a test, I only expected about 3 views, and it didn't block the video, just take the revenue, I ignored it.
Also I had a video that was copied several times and wasn't automatically detected (that's only for high level partners). When I reported the copies for copyright they would generally be taken down in about a half hour.
Are you suggesting YouTube turns a blind eye towards copyright infringement? My experience has been that they aggressively patrol the site for infringing content to the point where they remove many videos that are clearly not infringing.
Use of bots to flag and block content is getting from bad to worse.
We had a YouTube video that we manually recorded and uploaded. Some random guy no way related to it claimed copyright without any proof and YT immediate removed from listing.
The appeal process is so complicated and probably have to deal with another bot, it was not worth the process so we just ignored.
What i've learned is, if anybody want to blackmail or jealous of your channel, all they have to do is submit a request and your video will be out with an endless and almost impossible appeal process.
This happened about a year ago and since I'm not dependent on music for my livelihood, disappointed as I was with the outcome, I just moved on and forgot about it.
I can't exactly recall the correspondence with the advertising company but they assured me that they would immediately cease issuing compliance notices on my behalf.
Beyond that I never again tried to engage youtube / content-id myself to see what's what.
I know there is a mechanism for those affected by the takedown notices to challenge them, which I guess in my case they should win, but the easier thing is just get another piece of CC music for the video.
Sucks for me but easy solution for the video-maker.
There are notable examples of DMCA takedown notices being illegally issued by people who weren't controlling the copyright on the material they wanted taken down.
"Fair Use" has been damaged; it's much harder to use a snippet of something now without risking it being taken down.
Youtube's technical copyright protections are remarkable - I'm amazed that this model isn't a lot more popular throughout industry. Maybe Google needs to give this tech away for free and the tech community can show that they're trying to do something about rampant piracy. Except, I can't help feeling that a Youtube video isn't much of a problem. Even though I know the rights holders do see it as a problem, and happily block access to people in different territories or have content taken down.
Fuck YouTube and the copyright trolls infesting the service.
I have repeatedly fought copyright claims on material that was obviously public domain. Being tired of reminding claimants and YouTube that NASA air to ground comms and presidential speeches are not subject to copyright, I deleted the content.
There were absurd claims, where my uploads were on YouTube for years before the claimants published their material, and the audio was from events recorded by the U.S. government a half century ago.
Yeah, fuck YouTube and the copyright trolls who infest it.
Click "copyright infringement" and "infringing on me", add the target video's URL and it will be taken down automatically. It won't be restored until the appeal process is finished (usually several months).
A month ago one of my videos about a reported and fixed XSS vulnerability was taken down for violating some rules (it didn't say what rules exactly). I submitted an appeal and it was reinstated a few days later.
Several years ago one of my videos that used some public domain footage was taken down for copyright infringement. I appealed it saying the footage was in the public domain and they reinstated my video several days later.
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