How my video with 47 million views was stolen on YouTube
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Cited as an example of false copyright claims hitting even popular creators.
What it is
Musician TheFatRat describes how his video with 47 million views was claimed by another party through YouTube's copyright system and how he got it back.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Critical ostravak · 2020-09 · on “They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]”
You need not use somebody other's work at all to get into trouble. Composing your own song, producing it and publishing it via YT is enough. [this video] (2018, now resolved)
Critical 2pEXgD0fZ5cF · 2021-02 · on “Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters”
This is the worst part of this whole copyright mess, defenders of youtube constantly preach the "They have to do this", "they are forced to do this" etc. defense. However the way Youtube handles dmca and copyright claims means that if you are a smaller musician, a big corporation can just steal your music and profit off it. Good luck if you don't live in the US and don't have the money to take back what is yours. From that point you can basically just hope that you make the news so that a human at Google looks into the mess they created for once. Just leaving a reminder of how infuriation Youtube copyright handling can become even for larger channels: Back in 2018 TheFatRat got his music cla
Critical 2pEXgD0fZ5cF · 2021-05 · on “Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]”
> here artists get denied ownership of their own expression of public domain music Hell why stop there, music artists get their own original music stolen by Youtube who then proceeds to hand it to someone else, for anyone interested in a popular example: [this video]
Critical 2pEXgD0fZ5cF · 2022-01 · on “Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters”
> the starving artist The "starving" or small time artist is an excuse that is useful for corporations when they want to manipulate public opinion. No music label cares even the slightest bit about individual artists or their fair payment, they care about megahits and big sellers. If you want to support your favourite artist that isn't already a millionaire or multi-millionare paying for spotify isn't it. To actually support "starving artists" visit their shows, buy some merch (however even this isn't the case anymore for some) or look for independent artists on bandcamp (bandcamp takes 15% of a sold album). If all you do is pay for spotify or something like that you are not supporting a "st
Critical Sohcahtoa82 · 2023-04 · on “Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video]”
> YouTube may have taken down the videos but they also allow him (because of the DMCA) to file a counter-claim and make a claim that the videos aren't infringing. Naive of you to think that works. When you counter-claim, YouTube basically asks the original claimant "Are you sure?", and of course they're gonna say yes. Exibit A: [this video] - TLDW: Someone filed a false copyright claim against TheFatRat on one of his own songs . TheFatRat counterclaimed, and the dispute was not approved. YouTube does not at any point make a judgement call.