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Re:Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube ... by phpisthebest on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:32AM (#33864741)
YT has this weird format text that you have to EXACTLY copy and paste into the form for it to be processed, Several Lawyers on YT have talked about how to "successfully file a counter notification" and say that if you do not paste that EXACT terminology from their Help Document it will almost ways be rejected
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Re:Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube ... by danuker on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:55AM (#33864984)
That does not mean it is legal to reject it.
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Re:Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube ... by phpisthebest on Monday December 05, 2022 @08:05AM (#33865065)
DCMA Claims, and DMCA Counter Notification are required to have certin things in them to be legally valid, My guess is that form text has all of the legally required elements, and if you submit a counter notification that is missing even one element that is required it is perfectly legal to reject it

Remember DMCA is not written to protect you the user, or protect the little guy, DMCA was written for RIAA/MPAA by the RIAA/MPAA

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Re:Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube ... by counttheforks on Monday December 05, 2022 @08:37AM (#33865427)
Counter notifications that include all legally required elements but do not valid their form letter are still valid. Yet this probably doesn't mash with Google's "Automate all the things!" strategy, so they are instead shafting everyone and hoping they get away with it due to their wealth even though YouTube is blatantly breaking the law.
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Re:Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube ... by capableweb on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:06AM (#33867393)
I have zero love for YouTube, Google or Alphabet. But I feel like saying "YouTube is blatantly breaking the law" needs to be better researched to be taken serious than "yeah probably".
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Re:Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube ... by causality0 on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:21AM (#33867594)
YouTube is rich so laws are irrelevant.
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