Lawyer Reacts: Paul Davids' The Exploitation of YouTube's Copyright Policy

A Copyright lawyer reacts to Paul Davids' video regarding scam content ID claims he received on some of his videos: "The Exploitation of KZbin's Copyright Policy." ‪@PaulDavids‬
The video discusses DMCA takedown notices and how counternotices and litigation can be used to fight back.

[@GuyWicks]

I think a part of this is the amount of time and effort required to process the large number of claims. For a content creator, it's not only prohibitive in cost and risk, but also starts to eat into their motivation to create. It also seems that Google's / KZbin's policies are not always honoured by KZbin themselves, and the automated tools they provide are very limited in the options for redress. Finally, being a US company, Paul, based in EU probably just does not know where to start to get 'legal redress'' to his issues. I hope you and other 'fair use' legal experts can push back on this. It is ruining the content.

[@LawLaughsMusic]

Thank you for the post and good points, especially about Paul being in Europe, which could well be a motivator. That said, it's not just Paul who talks this way about being reluctant to push back. It's also people like Rick Beato who are in the U.S. I can see not pushing back on videos where fair use is a close call. And I can see not pushing back if a content ID claim is made on a video that isn't getting viewed that much more, anyway. But I am curious why on videos that are generating a lot of views, that are clearly fair use (or the claim is clearly by a scammer), there is as much reluctance about getting a DMCA takedown notice. I assume that there is fear of litigation, even if it would be frivolous, or perhaps KZbin doesn't remove the copyright strikes like I assume that they do, or something else. Maybe they feel like they need to stay on the good side of the major rights holders, too. I don't know.

[@brentjohnson7044]

I subscribed because this content is very interesting, but I could have done without the crude innuendo (2:44).

[@LawLaughsMusic]

Thank you for the sub and the comment, always good to hear what people think.

[@MossyMozart]

Also, the ageism is problematic. Otherwise, the legal aspect is interesting.