Good news? Youtube changes manual copyright infringement policy

Today generally positive news broke out for the Youtube creator community as it was announced by Youtube that creators would now have more protection when dealing with manual copyright claims.

Basically, what this means is that now creators can see a timestamp of the exact part of their video which is supposedly infringing, i.e. a 10 second audio clip. With this new policy, they can chose to change audio, remove it etc and supposedly this would still allow monetization of their video if the copyright is dealt with in a proper manner.

Whilst this marks good progression, the one negative is that automatic claims are still under the same rules as always; that is a creator cannot see the reason for the copyright and they are still in the dark in that sense.

Nonetheless, the news has mostly been received with happiness from the majority of Youtubers so at least it is a step in the right direction because before the policy (at times) was clearly abused and used as a tool to bully smaller creators.

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Memelous gets copyright claim on video from 'The Unknown vlogs'

Earlier this week we featured a story with British Youtuber, Memelous. It was a short video highlighting a cringe-worthy vlogger who was constantly trying to flex and prove his worth...

Anyway, this is a common feature of the Memelous channel; bashing corny Youtube personalities for laughs.
This week however things got more serious, as Memelous released a video which claimed his channel could potentially be taken down from Youtube as it breached a copyright rule. Several months back he covered a Youtuber called 'The Unknown vlogs' which was a fashion vlog, where Memelous called him out for showing off overly-expensive clothing on mostly teenagers...overall it was everything wrong with the whole flexing culture; a bunch of rich kids trying to look edgy and arrogant.

Fast forward to this week and Memelous' video has been hit with a copyright claim from The Unknown vlogs and Studio 71 (a Youtube partner company). Basically, they are arguing that he unfairly used their content without permission, whereas Memelous is arguing that it was used in context of the 'fair use act' which enables people to feature other videos under the lines of criticism (there is a difference for example with straight ripping another video - and doing a reaction video which is seen as fair use)...or not in this case.

Two appeals later and Memelous has been denied his video from Youtube. He now has to remove the video or it is removed via a copyright strike which is more serious, meaning two more could get his banned removed completely, and therefore lose his job and income.

This is a classic example of how Youtube's policies aren't seemingly as black and white as they seem, and yet again another Youtube critique/reaction video personality is being hit with successful copyright claims.

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