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Were You Caught in the Viacom Takedown?

If your video was taken down after complaints from Viacom, but contained either no viacom content at all, or fair use extracts, the Electronic Frontier Foundation would like to hear from you.  
 
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dashwarts (4 days ago) Show Hide
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:-/ Anyone have any information on the bogus-sounding MyVideoRights group? They took down a remixed Mr. Bean video of mine that used about 7% of the source material aired over a local PBS station (although lots of companies are sub-licensed it). I would contest it, but the button for countering false CID matches is gone (only the formal counter for videos taken down by an actual person is there)
chatocat (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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They took down 2 videos actually. it had many views. it was called "spongebob truth or square 3/7 and spongebob truth or square 7/7.
drtomihonagoto133 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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youtube should bann viacom from rhe site then sue them.
LILRYE1 (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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I was only making a walkthrough of a video game and ive seen tons of thoughs but its blocked due to copyright by viacom.
JIM4741return (1 month ago) Show Hide
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my account was SUSPENDED due to them!!
TheKillerShiny (1 month ago) Show Hide
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my video "what i want to do to the owner of viacom >:(" got removed because it was a hate message against them
VideoGameAnchormen (2 months ago) Show Hide
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same here, fuckers aint they, video game trailers or intros promote the game, i cant see how it breaks a copyright.
VideoGameAnchormen (2 months ago) Show Hide
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had a video removed today by a copyright claim by viacom, it was the intro to the beatles rock band video game, no idea if they own the rights or not but ive put in a counter claim, its bad they can flag videos for content they dony own.
KatoMitsuki (2 months ago) Show Hide
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That's what I'm wondering about! I mean, you can have 18+ Porn on here, but you CAN'T have someone singing a song, or some kinda tribute to someone/thing? WTF? x.x Srsly, they DO need to explain this.
KatoMitsuki (2 months ago) Show Hide
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They took down my video as well. I had like, ONE paragraph saying I didn't FREAKING own it, but they still TOOK it down. It was like a tribute of a cartoon character I like, wtf? It isn't even RELATED to Viacom, and I don't think the cartoon is OWNED by it. -_-. Youtube SERIOUSLY needs to look at this again, cause it's pissing me off, and making me wanna leave youtube, and i'm sure i'm not the only one. :(

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