Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28225359-20160306031752

The question has been asked since January, and it's time for the Internet to answer it.

On January 2016, a user mysteriously got their YouTube channel taken down for 17 hours, and came back again. But why? I'll tell you why, and it's copyright claims.

Copyright claims, as we know it, are claims that state that content does not follow Fair Use. But as time goes on, this ability has been abused. A great example is YouTube. YouTube allows you to make ads against a video to make more money than the uploader. They made it so even if the uploader won, the claimer keeps the money to themself. This has gotten so far that even I Hate Everything got his channel deleted even though his movie reviews fell under Fair Use. He isn't the only victim, though. YMS and Nostalgia Critic got falsely claimed too, and they all had to rely on public support to get their channel back. This is a very hard task to do, especially for a small channel.

If YouTube gives you a strike about copyright, they force you to shorten your videos to 15 minutes long. Seriously? Since when did you see a baseball game where if you get a strike you could only do a half swing? That's utter cal.

Remember the time Google was claimed by Viacom? And Google sued them because of it? They had public support like those three channels, and it wasn't easy. Hollywood doesn't think of Fair Use the same way as we do. That's because it's growing more and more.

So, I have to ask,


 * 1) Where'sTheFairUse? 