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>I would just like to put on record it was never my intention to steal from other content creators. I believe you. But that's still what you ended up doing. >The initial idea came as a service I could provide to streamers. Then why didn't you make it a service you could provide to streamers, instead of skipping the service and agreement part and just uploading the content first without their knowledge? A little like…
"why didn't you make it a service you could provide to streamers, instead of skipping the service and agreement part " Wait a minute. How would youtube know if he signed an agreement or not? Even if he did sign them youtube would have closed down the channel. We have seen this before with more legimate channels and I highly doubt an agreement would have mattered.
Presumably, people who signed an agreement would not send takedown requests. As you mention, there are cases where this does sometimes mistakenly happen, like if someone is being represented by some agency or firm and they don't realize the content is part of the agreement, but it should be disputable in those cases, and usually will get resolved.
(It's true that sometimes it takes too long for those cases to get properly resolved, but that's a separate thing. I'm definitely not saying IP management on YouTube is perfect - there's plenty of abuse and errors in the copyright system. This just isn't one of those situations.)