Re:Ask HN: How to Contact YouTube?
by killingtime74 on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:39PM
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Do you think attributing content means you have copyright?
No. What I’m saying is I don’t even know what I’ve copyrighted as I never received any notification from YouTube about any strikes.
Re:Ask HN: How to Contact YouTube?
by scpedicini on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:31PM
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Attribution is irrelevant if you're lifting them wholesale - and you're really stretching the definition of "fair use" since you're not obtaining consent from the actual content creators.
No idea if what OP is doing is or isn't fair use, but fair use doesn't require the content creator's permission, and in fact if you have the content owner's permission you generally don't need to invoke fair use at all (since they are in a position to simply grant you permission to use their content).
There is basically no chance that stealing the entirety of someone else's content (a full clip), no commentary, no parody, just a straight reupload onto their own account for views/subs is fair use.
Most of us on twitch want our clips to be seen in hopes it drives traffic back to our content. There are many shameless channels ripping content and promoting it as their own but mine where never like that and many smaller streamers commented on the videos allowing me to promo them even more.
Once some of the channels took off I even had submissions I was able to add.
Sorry for the ramble but I really don't want people I was just out stealing content...
Also I am in California but unsure how to exercise that right with youtube.