3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

Post by TZubiri » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 6:54 PM UTC

mullingitover wrote: post #40

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #18

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> a good baseline might be that you need to deposit say $1M This is a license to rip off the copyrights of anyone without a million dollars in cash.

I don't think so, since YouTube is operating their extrajudicial "go the extra mile for copyright holders" copyright claim system. It isn't required by law and this is what's being abused, not plain DMCA claims. For regular claimants, the regular (and free) DMCA system would still be in effect. The bonus is that filing fraudulent DMCA claims has real legal repercussions under the law. I don't know if there's any real…

Post by TZubiri » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 6:54 PM UTC

ysavir wrote: post #21

tialaramex wrote: post #17

I think a good baseline might be that you need to deposit say $1M and then when oops, you accidentally made a bogus claim it's OK that $1M is split between the victim of your oopsy and Youtube for their trouble - you just pay $1M to get back into the game. Outfits like this could explain to their investors that while their technology does sometimes have little goofs that cost a few billion dollars per year, once they…

Wouldn't this mean that the only people able to make claims in the first place are people with $1M to spare? It might deter aggressive claims, but also prevent individuals from making claims on violations of their copyrights.

Post by TZubiri » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 6:57 PM UTC

kepano wrote: post #16

You have to think of YouTube and other platforms as a mechanism for distribution, not a source of truth. If you're a creator it's essential to have your own place on the web were you can host and publish anything without fear that it will be taken down for any reason — even accidentally. As it becomes cheap to automate both creating takedown requests and processing requests, the volume of spam requests is going to sk…

Post by hn8726 » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 6:57 PM UTC

edanm wrote: post #103

echelon wrote: post #61

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Contrary to this, I'd like to see 3blue1brown actually get two more strikes and get deleted per YouTube "3 strikes" policy. Imagine the furor and outrage of that. One of the most popular, meaningful, and impactful channels done in by YouTube's (and the DMCA's) ridiculous policy [1]. The public outcry from this might motivate real policy changes both within Google and other FANNG companies as well as with lawmakers. U…

I love 3blue1brown and have followed the channel for years. One of my absolute favorite content creators. But I think you're vastly overestimate how popular he is compared to other channels that have gotten copyright strikes, or how much YouTube/Google care. I also don't love YouTube's policy, but are you so confident there's a better policy out there?

Post by gruez » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 6:58 PM UTC

TZubiri wrote: post #135

hamandcheese wrote: post #67

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This seems like a huge abuse of the copyright system to me. It sounds to me like ChainPatrol doesn't actually have any IP to protect, but they are instead deputizing YouTube's copyright system to fight what they deem to be crypto scams. Absolutely wild if true.

You can definitely use your IP to take down scams. If someone is using your name or your company's name to scam people, it is in your interest to save your name and provide people assurance that they can do business with your name.