It has nothing to do with American copyright law and everything to do with YouTube's shitty system. Videos aren't being taken down because they violate copyright, they're taken down because YouTube's claim/strike system is horrifically broken to the point that many companies are actually making a profit by issuing false claims. Doug Walker explains the whole thing here:
edited 24th Feb '16 7:48:16 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I've seen them get videos taken down, but is the channel usually taken down? That seems a bit excessive.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.The channel automatically gets taken down if three copyright strikes are issued through the automatic copyright system. There isn't a physical person involved in any of this. It's completely automated.
The IP-holder has the power to issue copyright claims and strikes that take up to two months for content creators to challenge, during which the IP-holder can take all monetary proceeds from the video. There is no penalty for false claiming, so some companies issue claims wherever they can just for the sake of raking in the money from those videos for the two months that it takes to resolve the claim.
Some companies even contract other companies to issue false claims on their behalf. Claims can be upgraded to strikes during the challenging process at the whim of the IP-holder regardless of legal merit and on the third strike, BAM, channel's gone.
This utterly corrupt and broken system is why we see not only parody videos and reviews receive copyright strikes, but also things like a home video of a baby dancing to a Prince song and an episode of Cinema Snob's show Midnight Screenings, which features nothing but the Cinema Snob and a few friends sitting in a car talking about the movie they just saw, with no footage from the actual film.
I repeat, this has nothing to do with copyright law and everything to do with You Tube's terrible policies. Companies are openly and flagrantly violating Fair Use because You Tube has no repurcussions for false claim flagging but rewards them monetarily every time they flag a major video, so why wouldn't they?
edited 24th Feb '16 8:03:37 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.https://twitter.com/Lanipator/status/702349414690467840
Lani says that the strike wasn't even for DBZ Abridged, but for D Bcember.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Unfortunately, there are still some DBZA episodes that are down. Including Episode 52. Which is really annoying, considering it only just got onto youtube a few days before.
I mean, you can always use their website, but the very fact that it's gone so soon is what's annoying me.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
Two things, as noted in the comments:
1) For a massive international company like Disney, the fact that it feels the need to ask for donations from its lower-end employees comes off as incredibly scummy.
2) The "voluntary" part is mandatory by law, and choosing to opt out effectively plants a target on your back internally.
It still kind of does.
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Doug Walker really deserves some praise for coming up with such a great hashtag. It conveys several different-but-related sentiments while still being wonderfully simple.
Yeah. It's the kind of thing that's not really kosher for an employer to bring up to an employee on account of the context of the employer-employee relationship.
Fear of repercussion is a big deal in office environments.
edited 26th Feb '16 11:22:21 AM by TobiasDrake
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Jeez. Where's my presidential candidate who wants to bring patents and copywriting into the 21st century?
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