<story><title>Can Beethoven send takedown requests?</title><url>https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/can-beethoven-send-takedown-requests-a-first-hand-account-of-one-german-professors-experience-with-overly-broad-upload-filters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dotancohen</author><text>Who was sending these notices? Sounds like perjury to me.</text></item><item><author>Jerry2</author><text>I used to have a Youtube channel where I posted videos of me playing the piano. I played mostly Mozart, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff compositions. I had around 40 videos in total. Sometime around 2014, I started getting DMCA takedown notices from various companies claiming copyright. I was getting one or two per week and I contested them and things were ruled into my favor. But then it started getting harder and harder to contest them and I even lost the ability to upload. It got so bad that one day several (3 or 4, don&amp;#x27;t remember anymore) notices were filed and Google didn&amp;#x27;t rule on them fast enough.&lt;p&gt;I had to close the channel because my account was locked for one full day and I couldn&amp;#x27;t do a thing. I had too many emails inside of Gmail and didn&amp;#x27;t want to lose them so I gave up. I&amp;#x27;m still pissed about it and how Youtube and Google run things.&lt;p&gt;I always found it interesting that under YT rules content creators have the &amp;quot;3 strikes and you&amp;#x27;re banned&amp;quot; rule hanging over their heads but those who falsely claim copyright can do so with impunity. I still remember one company that ended up falsely claiming copyright over 10+ of my videos and they did so against one or two videos per week. Nothing was ever done about them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ObsoleteNerd</author><text>Welcome to the DMCA. It&amp;#x27;s as broken as copyright and causing quite serious stifling of young creators. It sometimes feels like it&amp;#x27;s used more for evil than for its legitimate purpose.</text></comment>
<story><title>Can Beethoven send takedown requests?</title><url>https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/can-beethoven-send-takedown-requests-a-first-hand-account-of-one-german-professors-experience-with-overly-broad-upload-filters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dotancohen</author><text>Who was sending these notices? Sounds like perjury to me.</text></item><item><author>Jerry2</author><text>I used to have a Youtube channel where I posted videos of me playing the piano. I played mostly Mozart, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff compositions. I had around 40 videos in total. Sometime around 2014, I started getting DMCA takedown notices from various companies claiming copyright. I was getting one or two per week and I contested them and things were ruled into my favor. But then it started getting harder and harder to contest them and I even lost the ability to upload. It got so bad that one day several (3 or 4, don&amp;#x27;t remember anymore) notices were filed and Google didn&amp;#x27;t rule on them fast enough.&lt;p&gt;I had to close the channel because my account was locked for one full day and I couldn&amp;#x27;t do a thing. I had too many emails inside of Gmail and didn&amp;#x27;t want to lose them so I gave up. I&amp;#x27;m still pissed about it and how Youtube and Google run things.&lt;p&gt;I always found it interesting that under YT rules content creators have the &amp;quot;3 strikes and you&amp;#x27;re banned&amp;quot; rule hanging over their heads but those who falsely claim copyright can do so with impunity. I still remember one company that ended up falsely claiming copyright over 10+ of my videos and they did so against one or two videos per week. Nothing was ever done about them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jerry2</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;Who was sending these notices?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s lots of them. The most notorious one I had to deal with was Adrev. There are reports of people getting notices from AdRev for videos that don&amp;#x27;t even have any music in them. [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;productforums.google.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!topic&amp;#x2F;youtube&amp;#x2F;42xLenp36Co&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;productforums.google.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!topic&amp;#x2F;youtube&amp;#x2F;42xLe...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>