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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by icebraining on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:11AM (#18723262)
That's how the law works. If YouTube were to start leaving the videos up, the complainers would just start sending proper DMCA takedown notices, and YouTube would be forced to take it down promptly.
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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by bencollier49 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:48AM (#18723615)
But then if the takedowns were incorrect, the people sending them would have proper liability.
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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by kilotaras on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:19AM (#18723980)
AFAIK the only DMCA penalty is if you aren't authorized to represent copyright owner, not if your claim isn't valid.
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Re:For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works W... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:34AM (#18724360)
Well naturally showing (rather than necessarily legally sound) it would be fraud and/or libel.

But I understand the USA legal system doesn't automatically award costs to an injured party, so in practice noone cab afford to challenge any large media corp.

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