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FWIW, the author of the tweet, Mumbo Jumbo is a high-profile Minecraft videos content creator on YouTube (3M subscribers) and he's doing this as his full-time

• drtillberg 7y ago
  He has a contract with the musician whose songs he incorporated in the video. Would be simpler (and possibly more profitable) to use the dispute-resolution process and maybe indemnity built into that contract, tell the musician to call off the dogs and reimburse him for diverted profits and his time/expenses. This doesn't sound like an example of YouTube badness, but rather an example of the hazards of working with unreliable business partners. And pay attention to your contracts!
  • caymanjim 7y ago
    It's quite possible that the musician doesn't actually own the rights and was never allowed to license the music in the first place. They may have negotiated some deal (handshake or formal), but musicians normally don't own the publishing rights to their own music; the label does.
    • TheOtherHobbes 7y ago
      I've just listened to the music and it sounds like it's sample-based - in which case there may be a problem if ProleteR didn't clear the samples. This isn't MumboJumbo's fault in any way. But if there are samples and they're not cleared, there's a legal issue. That does not - of course - give WC the right to steal 25% of the value of MJ's work just because YT says they can.
      • tobias2014 7y ago
        With his recent tweets it looks like this exactly what has happened!
      • imtringued 7y ago
        >That does not - of course - give WC the right to steal 25% of the value of MJ's work just because YT says they can. This is completely wrong. Youtube can do whatever it wants unless MumboJumbo specifically signed a contract with Youtube to receive guaranteed compensation. The only law Youtube has to follow is the copyright law and it's doing it to the fullest extent possible in this instance.
  • simion314 7y ago
    >Would be simpler (and possibly more profitable) to use the dispute-resolution process For each 1800 videos? The youtuber claims that you have to do it for each video and it takes 1 to 2 minutes each. Though this case looks more reasonable then the idiotic case where white-noise gets a copyright strike.
• inlined 7y ago
  MatPat of Game Theory & Film Theory says that his YouTube rep explained the company has a categorization internally for video game accounts, which means they can never be part of the VIP category.
  • solarkraft 7y ago
    What a weird system.
  • dredmorbius 7y ago
    In English, please?
    • pbhjpbhj 7y ago
      A person who uses YouTube heavily, who's content many people here will recognise, has a contact inside Google. This Google representative has reportedly said that the group who are recognised as "VIPs" (Very Important Person) by the company specifically excludes people working in a particular field of content production, namely gaming.
      • dredmorbius 7y ago
        Thanks, I didn't parse "MatPat" as a personal name.
  • cameronbrown 7y ago
    I don't understand why popularity, not the type of content, isn't what makes you VIP?
    • kd5bjo 7y ago
      Any VIP program works on the (perceived) social standing that comes from (perceived) exclusivity. YouTube doesn’t want to alienate the traditional celebrities with ties to big media companies; part of that means stocking the VIP pool with only people that those celebrities consider to be their peers.
• zaroth 7y ago
  The recourse is to sue, and if the facts of the case are as they appear to be, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were punative damages attached.
• imtringued 7y ago
  Yes but he doesn't work for the large media companies that effectively wrote the copyright law. He's merely running a "one man" operation + some support. Destroying these "one man" competitors who can become dangerous to the entrenched business models is part of the strategy.