Thursday, July 26, 2018

Copyrights And Wrongs

https://web.archive.org/web/20180726052133/http://freetofindtruth.blogspot.com/2018/07/youtube-removes-video-exposing.html?m=1

This is going to be short and a throw in to the grand scheme of things.

Again, Google is real quick to act when money is involved and not so much with harmful content issues.  So I have to fall on the side of the YouTuber’s getting copyright strikes in a case like this.  If you are about to upload content that might be copyrighted you could, in theory, contact the copyright holder and ask for permission.  If they can’t be contacted, then it’s kind of impossible to get that permission.

The holder of a copyright is in no way obligated to invoke the copyright and can pick and choose what they quibble about.  So just use it as a learning lesson about what to post.  Specific to Supertramp the issue with them being struck from YouTube has been going on for many years.  So you could check the Internet beforehand for similar land mines that are out there.  One way I found while helping a friend create a playlist was doing a search on YouTube.  If the original artist is missing it’s a good bet that their content is going to be allowed.

And yes, it does seem heavy handed to get hit with a full guidelines strike without warning.  But you don’t have any legal recourse in this case.

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