Any way to prevent copyright infringement?

Lawlerskates · Feb 24, 2010

Let's just say I uploaded a video about a week ago and it has netted me $2,000 since then. The video, just this second, was taken down for copright infringement. My video has absolutely no more copyright infringement than any other video related to mine - they just so happen to choose to delete mine. There's nothing else I can do except re-upload the video underneath a different account and hope I don't get banned - since my primary account has two strikes. Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening again?

I don't want to give away what I'm doing but here's a hint: it contains videogame footage from a popular upcoming videogame. It doesn't contain any actual gameplay, just the game's menu. The rest of the video is my desktop.

Lawlerskates · Feb 25, 2010

Nick14874 said:
Sounds like your competitors flagged you for having copyright infringed content. It's not that you were stealing someone else's work, but you released gameplay of a video game that is not even released yet. The creator of the video game has a licenses with youtube to have the right to take down copyright material. Basically, they can go around youtube and delete whatever they want that has to do with there company. They do have the rights to do this, unfortunately.

If you really think you can fight the case then type in "counter copyright youtube" into google and it explains how you can counter there deletetion of your video. I have read through all this, since I had copyright problems with music related content and beleive me, its not worth it. Just move on and reupload it from another account, like you said.

Goodluck!

Thanks, I'm working on it now. It kind of sucks because I had a good thing going though, with 10,000+ views per day. It's hard to regain that type of momentum now. I wish I could claim Fair Use but apparently if I open a dispute, it enables the company claiming copyright infringement to pursue me legally.

nodoubtgq79 · Feb 25, 2010

what video network did you use to make the 2k? youtube, vimeo, etc?

1. find out where the traffic is coming from
2. if it's coming from google search then pick a less competitive term
you could be ranking on page 1 for the video game name and the company is probably flagging you

i really doubt it's a competitor
usually big companies require the person reporting you to PROVE that they are the original owner

Remington · Feb 25, 2010

stilliryze said:
so if claim fair use,I am immune to copyright infringement?

Don't know about YouTube, but in terms of copyright law (US, at least):

Only if it really IS a fair use. But you still may have to litigate it if the copyright holder doesn't agree with your claim. Otherwise everybody would just claim "fair use" for everything.

dracula304 · Feb 25, 2010

if your competitors flagged your video, you got the message like :"This video has been remove due to violate our Term of Service". Otherwise, if you got something like that: "This video has no longer available due to copyright claim from xxxx", it means the game's company did.

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