Ok, I'm getting really tired of the Youtube copyright system bullstuff and I just wanted to vent a little bit.
You see this stuff?
Appeals. My original dispute to these lawyer ass hats wasn't enough. I specifically would say: "yo, this is a movie I don't own, I acknowledge that, but the majority of the video is me talking about said movie and giving my opinion and critical brown townysis. This is what we call
fair use. I want to be able to get paid for my video content since I put the time and work into this video and I have that option to monetize available to me. "
But no, they still have the nerve, even after viewing my video to say "nah kid, sorry, we just really want it taken down." Which to me sounds more like they just don't like that I am bad-mouthing their film and given they have the legal upper-hand at the moment, still try to take it down. So I appeal.
Not only have I had to endure copyright appeal after copyright appeal after copyright appeal (all of which I've won due to parties either getting their head out of their asses and realizing that fair use is real, or just forgetting they made a claim and letting it expire after a month), but now they've changed the layout on youtube that tells me about my appeals.
See, I use Twilight as an example here because I appealed that forgeter back when I put it up and so it was before the change of design. Originally when I viewed it, I was able to see the date in which the copyright
abusers had to file against my appeal and have it removed due to copyright infringement. Usually at this point someone will either realize it was stupid to flag my video and even cause me to appeal and will withdraw their claims. If they don't, Youtube gives them exactly a months time to finalize their claim or whatever and after that it expires and I'm allowed to continue monetizing my video (which is ridiculous in its own right cause that's a month worth of views I could be getting paid for, but I'm stuck waiting for some richardwad at Universal Pictures to decide to just not do anything).
But now as you can see, there is no longer a date there. Because it was before the design change, I know that the date for Twilight was June 6th, or this Saturday, so I should be able to continue monetizing it. That is of course if they still allow that month anymore. It might be now they can allow it to go indefinitely, thus effectively allowing me to not make any money on my own work just because it happens to contain their source (which, again, totally allowed in fair use scenarios if it's a critical review) and because I criticized their source.
Jurassic World is a whole other ball game.
Not only do I not know when the appeal period will be over if ever, but the fact of the matter is their calling me out for use of a
trailer. I am critically looking at their trailer. The thing they want to use to sell their movie and be seen by as many people possible so that they can get money by people seeing the movie. I AM NOT EVEN SAYING "DON'T GO SEE THIS MOVIE," I AM JUST SAYING "THIS IS WHAT IT NEEDS TO DO TO BE GOOD, LET'S FIND OUT IF I'M RIGHT
WHEN WE GO TO SEE IT."
I'm getting ready to leave Youtube honestly. I've heard these stories before, but I've never truly experienced the frustration until now.
It sucks because, I've been on Youtube for literally ten years now. I started my account in 05, it'd feel like I was leaving something I've worked so hard to create all these years. Plus I don't know if I'm big enough a content creator to garner the kind of audience that Youtube has, outside of Youtube. If I leave I might never be able to break 480 subscribers, because Youtube is such a giant in video sites some people don't even know others exist.
This is literally the most frustrating thing about being a content creator right now, especially if you're in comedy. If you want to do reviews, or make parody, or really anything that needs to acknowledge popular culture, you better hope your reference is under 20 seconds, otherwise they might flag your ass.
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