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I'm confused. Some of the top channels are related to people playing Minecraft. Are these going to be taken down?

• LandoCalrissian 13y ago
  They shouldn't be, Mojang has given permission for people to make videos using Minecraft content. Although they still might, because videos are being taken down that publishers have given permission for, which is one of the major problems here.
• russellsprouts 13y ago
  DocM77 is a Minecraft YouTuber. He explained some of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNaLY_2_Uzc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNaLY_2_Uzc He only had 1 Minecraft video taken down. His intro music (not content from Mojang) was flagged, even though he had a license to use it. (The bot doesn't know about licenses). He Most other games have copyrighted background music. Even games that he was invited to play and record by the publishers were flagged because the bot finds the music in the background. He is filing counter-notices, but they must be filled out individually -- even if the same song is tagged in all 50 episodes of a series. Most go away, but when they are sustained, that is a strike against the account. Too many strikes bans a channel. The larger channels, like Doc's, have contacts at YouTube. They can get their channels reinstated, but smaller channels have a harder time.