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If the first-come first-serve is true, what prevents a creator from self DMCA-ing all his videos so as to get all the revenue? Possibly by embedding a copyright
by noname120 2y ago
If the first-come first-serve is true, what prevents a creator from self DMCA-ing all his videos so as to get all the revenue? Possibly by embedding a copyrighted sound that belongs to a company they create just for that purpose.
- everforward 2y agoPerjury charges. They're almost never pursued because of the difficulty of proving what someone knew or didn't know, but DMCA'ing yourself is perjury per se because you cannot infringe your own copyright. The RIAA/MPAA would absolutely lobby to make pursuing those perjury charges a priority.
- immibis 2y agoI DMCAed GitHub and Stack Overflow for not letting me delete my own content (both of them ignored it and then I sent GDPR notices to both; GitHub ignored that one a d SO told me to fuck off. Next step is a lawsuit, but that's expensive). The perjury declaration you have to make is that you believe everything in the notice is accurate and you believe you have the right to issue this notice. Actually, the less well you know the law, the safer you are from perjury. Plus, they'd have to actively sue you for perjury which costs them a lot of money for zero gain, unless you're spamming bad requests or something.