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In May 2016, a YouTube user Matt Hosseinzadeh sued the YouTube channel h3h3productions (run by Ethan and Hila Klein) citing a video that criticized his content. Fellow YouTube user Philip DeFranco started a GoFundMe fundraiser entitled "Help for H3H3". [36] The initiative raised over $130,000.
YouTube's own practice is to issue a "YouTube copyright strike" on the user accused of copyright infringement. [1] When a YouTube user gets hit with a copyright strike, they are required to watch a warning video about the rules of copyright and take trivia questions about the danger of copyright. [2] A copyright strike will expire after 90 days.
Viacom cited internal e-mails sent among YouTube's founders discussing how to deal with clips uploaded to YouTube that were obviously the property of major media conglomerates. Google stated that Viacom itself had "hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site". [15]
[1] [33] Google has countered these assertions by stating that (as of 2016) Content ID detected over 98% of known copyright infringement on YouTube and humans filing removal notices only 2%. [1] In January 2018, a YouTube uploader who created a white noise generator received copyright notices about a video he uploaded which contained only white ...
Some of these disclaimers, however, are less accurate and need to be interpreted individually as the term anti-copyright has no accepted legal meaning. For example, if just free distribution is encouraged, modification or lack of attribution is still illegal, making the material ineligible for collaborative writing projects like English Wikipedia .
The copyright notice must also contain the year in which the work was first published (or created), and the name of the copyright owner, which may be the author (including the legal author/owner of a work made for hire), one or more joint authors, or the person or entity to whom the copyright has been transferred.
YouTube started treating all videos designated as "made for kids" as liable under COPPA on January 6, 2020, [22] resulted in some videos that contain drugs, profanity, sexual content, and violence, along side some age-restricted videos, also being affected, [23] despite YouTube claiming that such content is "likely not made for kids". [24]
The narrator explains what copyright is and how abusing it can negatively impact a content creator (such as being sued, losing all their money, or losing their YouTube account altogether). Russell's reupload of the movie then gets taken down by Lumpy, resulting in Russell's first copyright strike, then Russell receives the email informing him ...