I'm getting tells at YouTube to remove my Alizee videos

[marik]

preety bad! y is there a problem?
i think someone requested that
maybe........

[atra201]

Alizee doesn't mind your vids
why should youtube care ?
i say leave 'em

[Uméesha]

Originally Posted by Matrix

People are sending me messages at my account on YouTube asking me to remove my Alizee videos for copryright infringement. It's just a few messages, it's not alot and YouTube has not asked me to yet.

Did youtube authorities asked you to delete the vidoes which is copyright infringement or the people who are the members of youtube has messaged you? if the member has sent you the message dont delete them.... if youtube authorities warns you, delete the videos!

Originally Posted by Matrix

I'm editing pre-made videos and inserting popular music into them... big deal. It's not like i'm uploading an entire Alizee en Concert DVD onto YouTube like some people are doing, rofl Or uploading complete Alizee music from her albums like tens of thousands of others are doing on YouTube.

Well, of course the content I upload is not 100% originally made by me. Nothing I upload is content that I personally created. YouTube would come down in one day if they removed all content not originally made by a user.

It's free advertising, I don't understand why the copyright police people are getting so upset about the content I put on there or the millions of others who do the same thing

editing in sense the video should be purely of alizee videos and alizee songs not other songs which is clubed into on video... some time they warn for that too, remixing other songs to alizee video....

Originally Posted by Matrix

When anyone uploads a video to YouTube they are asked by YouTube if you are sure this is content entirely made by you, then proceed with your upload.

Youtube asks that "if you are sure this content is entirelymade by you" in sense this is said whether the video is captured by yourself either by hanycam, camrecorder etc... the contents you can upload, but some times the authorities will watch the video whether the video is copyrighted or it is unauthorised videos....

Originally Posted by Matrix

YouTube is not like Napster was in the beginning.... or is it? If YouTube wants my videos removed then.... I am waiting for them to request that... until then I am leaving them up

since Youtube videos is one of the most commonly visiting video website the act does a lot... they are improving a lot, they look for some unauthorised videos.....

i too have uploaded a video in metacafe named Alizee-Hip Hop... the metacafe authorities sent an E-mail to remove the video but not the members of the metacafe, so i removed it for the site!

[Gatchaman]

So far all of the Alizee videos I've upload haven't been taken down.

[marik]

Youtube down!(jk) but what if all the recent vids are gone?
the news fans would find a vid about her and if they cant find? what would we do? and also what if the singles and albums of her are out of stock?
Youtube must accept the vids!

[Zack -Alizee Lover-]

Originally Posted by Gatchaman

So far all of the Alizee videos I've upload haven't been taken down.

I still have my video....

[spaceli0n]

youtube dont really care normally i dont think, but they will have the corporate giants breathing down their necks wanting them to remove it all with a team of lawyers rdy.

[OGRE]

Originally Posted by Matrix

People are sending me messages at my account on YouTube asking me to remove my Alizee videos for copryright infringement. It's just a few messages, it's not alot and YouTube has not asked me to yet.

If the person sending the message cannot establish their authority to enforce a copyright, I would recommend ignoring the request; don't even respond to it.

Let me give a hardcopy example. Let's say I'm at a copy machine copying a book. A stumbling drunk comes into the copy store, walks up to me and says..."Stop copying the book sonny boy. You're violating the copyright". I can just keep on copying. Next, a businessman in a nice suit walks up to me and says.."Stop copying the book, you are violating the copyright". Again, he has no authority. I just keep copying.

Now, the owner (or employee) of the store where I am copying the material walks up to me and asks "Are you allowed to copy that material". If I don't have a good verifiable answer, the owner of the store is within their rights to request I cease copying the material. This would be similar to YouTube asking you to either provide certification that you are not infringing copyright, or remove the material.

Lastly, if someone with the legal authority of the book's publisher walks up to me and requests I cease copying the material, I will either need to provide reasonable proof that I am within my rights to make copy (e.g., copying for research paper), or I should cease copying or risk civil (and possibly criminal) action. Even in this instance, the legal authority would not be able to FORCE me to stop.

Normally, the legal authority prefers to go through the service provider (YouTube in this instance) because if a service provider is notified material is infringing on a copyright, and the provider does nothing, the provider can be held liable for damages.

Bottom Line: All those messages you're getting are anywhere from the proverbial drunk to the GQ Business king. They have ZERO AUTHORITY in this matter. A message from YouTube (verify it) or the publisher (again, verified), on the other hand, should be headed.

Note that this is one reason cease and desist message come via registered or certified mail. Anyone can pretend to be Mr. Big Shot via anonymous email. A hard copy mailing on business letterhead, and undersigned identified as lawyer representing the copyright holder is pretty much good authority; if it's not, you have a fraud action.

IANAL

[Matrix]

Okay... I just flagged all the heavily viewed Alizee videos at YouTube as inappropriate due to Terms of Use Violation. I even flagged that two million viewed Alizee video on there... should be down by the end of today. If my videos gotta come down.. then I'm taking down every single Alizee video at YouTube....

Let's play hardball

Most of you are missing the point... I had uploaded a little over 30 Alizee edited videos. It's the quantity. Remember the authorities sued the heavy abusers of Napster music downloads, not the random abuser. I had to take em all down... call it a gut feeling but I had a feeling I was gonna get in trouble so down they all came

[Deepwaters]

Matrix, it occurs to me that the objection might not be to the Alizée-related video footage so much as to the copyrighted songs you use along with them, from other artists. Test for this: Do you have non-Alizée clips on YouTube that you have not been asked to take down?