When YouTube Sues YOU - YouTube Fights Copyright Troll?
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YouTube has filed suit against a YouTuber named Christopher Brady for allegedly filing false DMCA takedown notices against three other YouTubers. YouTube asserts that he attempted to extort those YouTubers using fake accounts and threatened to delete their channels. Worse, the complaint alleges that Brady “Swatted” one of the YouTubers i.e. he called the police under false pretenses to the YouTuber’s home.
The Congress passed the DMCA in 1998 to deal with copyright-infringing material online. It’s one of two laws that gives websites a safe harbor – the other being Communications Decency Act, section 230, which is something I will cover in the future. The bottom line is that a website isn’t liable for copyright infringement so long as they take down the offending material when they receive a notice. This is called a DMCA Takedown Notice. 17 USC 512
YouTube asserts that one Christopher Brady issued false DMCA takedown notices to extort certain youtubers – people that made Minecraft videos. Basically, he claimed he owned the copyright to Minecraft and therefore demanded that the youtubers pay him money or he would issue another DMCA takedown.
Youtube has a system where if you receive 3 DMCA takedown notices, your channel is deleted.
When a DMCA takedown notice is levied against your channel, YouTube gives you a strike. Three strikes and your out.
Allegedly, Brady would issue two dmca takedown notices and then try to extort hundreds of dollars from the creators by threatening a third takedown notice.
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