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You probably got hit with a number of DMCA takedown requests. You've filed a counter-notice, which will put the content back up. But you have to wait until that
by rossjudson 14y ago
You probably got hit with a number of DMCA takedown requests. You've filed a counter-notice, which will put the content back up. But you have to wait until that occurs, which could be a while.
You may not have done anything wrong, for this to occur. All it takes is someone willing to _say_ that you infringed on their copyright.
I think you can sue the issuers of the takedowns, if they are fraudulent.
- Karunamon 14y agoYou can, but good luck. Filing a counternotice gets you the name (and I think the IP address) of the person that filed the notice, but considering that #1 is just a form input box and #2 is useless for identificiation purposes... This was likely the act of someone with an axe to grind, not any violation of YouTube policies.
- jacquesm 14y agoThis is the counter notification section of youtube: http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_counter http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_counter The final line reads: > We may then reinstate the material in question at our discretion. So it's a toss-up if they're actually going to do something but they will reveal your information to the party that claimed infringement. That seems to be a pretty lousy deal.
- gknoy 14y agoDoesn't your account also get wrecked after you've received a certain number of takedown requests, regardless of their validity?
- mitchty 14y agoYeah I believe it is up to 3. So basically 3 cries of wolf are enough to get any youtube account closed. Seems fair. /joke
- MichaelGG 14y agoIt is an offense for a party to DMCA takedown content they do not own the rights to. This is assuming it was a DMCA takedown and not YouTube's internal system which doesn't have the same protections the DMCA provides. Not that it makes it necessarily feasible, but at least there is an option.