Hellsing920: The "Epic" Rant - YouTube and Copyright

Due to recent events, I felt I needed to talk about this. Tonight, I talk about YouTube's questionable copyright policies.

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• Hellsing920
• He11sing920
• Epic Rant
• YouTube
• Copyright
• DMCA
• Rant
• False Copyright Claims

[ConstantineChernabog]

Thanks for hacking Doug Walker's computer, and crashing TGWTG.com with a virus, you miserable asshole!

[He11sing920]

@ConstantineChernabog What the hell are you talking about?

[egon303]

Copyright on youtube stems the creative flow of new media.

[He11sing920]

@egon303 So, are you saying that the only way to be creative in the world of new media is by stealing material from other people?

That's funny, since I am making videos that I feel are (in some small way) creative, and I don't need to run in fear of copyright infringement.

In all honestly, copyright on YouTube stems the creative flow of lazy and creatively impotent people in new media.

[egon303]

@He11sing920 No that's not what i'm saying at all. I think google's money would be better spent on a Super Google Copyright Team that help users seek out and get the legal permissions from the artist's whose material they have used. Why can't they do that? I'd pay for that service, i'm pretty sure it could work the same way as the partnership thing does on youtube.

[He11sing920]

@egon303 Or, prior to using material, you could try to get legal permission to do it yourself. That would be the content creator's responsibility in the first place. If they don't that, they deserve to have their video taken down.

[KyFriedPlatypus]

The thing that pisses me off about Youtube's copyright system is the fact that some indivduals like to flag videos for the sake of being asshurt. Not going to mention names but lets just say that one of them is essentially a hillbilly who is obsessed with Thomas the tank engine.

[bluemew22]

@He11sing920 apparently he's claiming you crashed tgwtg.com. No idea why you would, or how he came to that conclusion, but ignore him. he's clearly trying to get top-spot because he's an attention whore... and your response made him successful.

[1994moviebuff]

Btw how did you feel about the Grinch movie?

[1994moviebuff]

If you did it, fess up

[Pictoron]

DMCA's are the most flawed thing created on the internet :3

[KHFreak63]

My biggest questions is why everyone else can use a song in their video but when i put up a vid with the same song, the audio or the video itself it taken out. It bugs me. like alot. I know none of us have the intention of copyrighting when we use music in our vids. It's just to add to the vid itself and make it more interesting. Either that or we are supporting the band/song. My latest video was removed because of copyright and i was simply showing lyrics to it cuz no one else had.

[egon303]

@He11sing920 The all important word "try." Getting legal permission is not easy, and if google could set up a service to help users, then i do think it would be beneficial for the youtube community and the artists who were involved. Mashups, where two different tracks are mixed together to create a new sound is technically an original remix, therefore remixers fees should apply, and would if the remixers could get that illusive permission. Google could you please give us a foot in the door.