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Hughes v. Benjamin determined that Benjamin's (Sargon of Akkad, anti-feminist youtuber) reposting of this type was fair use, in fact he was even awarded fees. T
by tehwebguy 5y ago
Hughes v. Benjamin determined that Benjamin's (Sargon of Akkad, anti-feminist youtuber) reposting of this type was fair use, in fact he was even awarded fees. This a U.S. district court decision wrt federal law so YMMV.
- pseudo0 5y agoExcept YouTube (temporarily) banned them for community guidelines violations, not copyright violations. So the Hughes v. Benjamin decisions isn't relevant.
- ripply 5y agoAdding some context to this. You are absolutely correct, his video did not have any added audio commentary or basically anything and he won his case, his video was just sections copied directly from the source creating a compilation of the original video. In this case as I understand it, the content being uploaded is extremist content (in their eyes) explicitly being uploaded to highlight its extremism (in their eyes), the difference between the two situations being that Sargon’s video didn’t contain extremist content that YouTube wouldn’t want on their platform. RWW is posting content they essentially want to be removed. They got what they wanted, the content was removed. In a sense they succeeded in what they set out to do. I wish their channel be reinstated, but this situation looks to be slightly different from Benjamin’s unless more details come out. It seems like YouTube messed up and is treating them harshly, but for all we know this type of content is now no longer allowed on the platform due to policy change.