Fair use laws have long been a concern for many of YouTube’s video game and general pop culture content-focused creators with copyright claims causing YouTubers to not only lose ad revenue, but sometimes even see their channels blocked or terminated entirely. Recent developments with Japanese publisher Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions have raised flags for similar issues to soon arrive to YouTube’s massive community of anime-based creators. Now, following recent copyright claims from television company CBS, Angry Joe has threatened to take legal action against the media conglomerate.
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In an incensed rant uploaded to Joe’s YouTube channel Wednesday, the popular reviewer railed against CBS after the company had issued multiple claims against his initial review and subsequent edits of the fourth episode of the Halo Paramount Plus series. During the video, Angry Joe expressed his frustrations with CBS after editing the review multiple times to conform to CBS’s guidelines and warned the company that he would take it to court if the re-upload sees a copyright claim. Joe went on to accuse CBS of abusing YouTube’s fair use policy and stated that he wasn’t intending to let CBS “push around” himself or other channels anymore.
YouTube’s automated copyright strikes have frequently been at odds with the YouTube gaming community as many of the biggest companies have been involved with scandals related to the system in the past. Nintendo has frequently made use of the system to take down videos of both its games and music from them, and Bungie was recently the subject of a series of fraudulent claims with an unknown party issuing copyright claims against uploads of music from Destiny, even seeing its own channel hit.
While many have criticized the heavy-handed nature of copyright claims on YouTube from major companies, its main competitor Twitch has also seen plenty of takedowns related to its copyright system introduced last year. Copyrighted music had long been a hot topic on the platform with companies like Riot Games and Twitch itself starting initiatives for copyright-free music for streamers and several Madden streamers saw erroneous bans for livestreaming the game during the Super Bowl. Angry Joe’s threats of legal action against CBS will just mark the most recent chapter in a long and rocky history of copyrighted content on YouTube.
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Source: Pure Xbox
