Metallic band DragonForce has been combating with YouTube’s damaged copyright system for every week now. Right here’s the newest.
The band took to Twitter to protest a random YouTube person claiming possession of their music, “Valley of the Damned.” On August 17 the band’s official Twitter account wrote, “Hey YouTube Music, this have to be the most important mess up we’ve seen, and we’ve seen loads! Any random particular person can now declare they personal a band’s music and they need to take it all the way down to keep away from a strike?” with a screenshot of the strike they acquired. YouTube shortly responded saying it was “right here to assist.” Regardless of the fast acknowledgment of the problem on social media—nothing else occurred for almost every week.
DragonForce tweeted three days later saying it despatched authorized letters to YouTube regarding the false takedown. “Our music “Valley of the Damned” is about to be taken down as we speak as a result of a copyright strike that YouTube consider and checked to be legitimate. You actually not gonna do something about this YouTube, even after all of the authorized letters? No causes given!” the band tweeted. YouTube as soon as once more responded, directing the band to the official web page to file a counter-claim and retain possession of the music and video.
After every week of pleading with YouTube to do one thing concerning the false strike, the platform lastly acknowledged it was incorrect and canceled the pending takedown of the music.
“Obtained an replace for you!” the official YouTube account tweeted the band. “We’ve confirmed that the takedown request was invalid. Consequently, we’ve cancelled the delayed takedown for the vid and your channel received’t obtain a strike. Actually respect you bringing this to our consideration & bearing with us whereas we sorted this out,” the account states.
It’s unlucky that the YouTube Content material ID system will be abused in such a means that official music channels are subjected to false takedown requests. That is sadly quite common on the planet of Twitch and YouTube gaming movies—much less so from an official music channel.