giwake

game developer, I think?

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i make games and music, sometimes.

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tokyoscarab
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My partner is a teacher and uses YouTube as the main place to upload and store videos for her classes. She teaches computer science and a lot of these videos are on programming. Within the past week, a company / channel has gone about copyright striking her entire channel. Every video that was claimed are just lecture style videos with desktop computer capture and talking. There's no music or videos of other things or anything like that. It's just plain talking while typing into Visual Studio. Before she could even respond to any of these, YouTube not only shut down her channel, any channel tied to that channel, and also banned her from having another account on the platform!


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in reply to @tokyoscarab's post:

I have completed that information and hear nothing further. The day after I submitted that information I received an email from YouTube that I was banned and all associated accounts we're also banned.

first of all: this sucks so bad, i'm sorry

i 100% agree with other person saying name and shame. trumpet it from the rooftops on any platform you can exactly who this company is and what they're doing. if there are places on the internet you can find to review their product (trustpilot, google reviews, etc. i don't know how common it is for this type of thing to end up with there, but if you search [company name] reviews you might find stuff), trash their reviews. all you have to do is be truthful. all you're doing is attaching their name to their actions. what they're doing is quite literally perjury. false/malicious copyright strikes are a crime!

New Media Rights looks like a promising place to maybe get free or reduced-fee legal help, since what she was providing sounds like something free, educational, widely useful, independent, etc.... probably worth a shot. i checked their twitter mentions and it looks like they are actively helping people out (here is a recent happening).

and if all else fails, threatening to take legal action is free. just saying that you'll be in contact with a lawyer is sometimes all it takes. i'd make that my last resort but i've made it work lol

It may or may not work but I’ve had luck with weird YT problems a couple of times by reaching out to teamyoutube on Twitter. Granted for lesser issues, but I was surprised by how responsive they were, so it’s worth a shot.

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