Today our YouTube channel received a fake copyright strike. The video in question was entirely created with our own content and discussed rather neutral Guy McPherson’s so called Near Term Extinction theory. The video got close to 2000 views and received over 100 comments, many what appeared to be from deniers – we can provide clear evidence of a concerted effort. Deniers getting desperate when their Near Term Extinction, read do nothing mantra is dismantled.
The day before, a YouTube user by the name of Beth Perera commented below the video that it was violating copyright.
We reached out to Guy McPherson for clarification, and so far do not suspect that he himself filed the complain.
This is a developing story, we will update the post if new information becomes available.
Watch the censored video here.
UPDATE Read our latest blog on this issue.
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[…] The channel is otherwise in good terms, and we only have a small number of videos with copyright claims on it, videos where we use for instance copyrighted music, and fully comply with accepting the claims from other content creators. Additional we regularly receive copyright claims which are false, copyright claims for content which has been published into the public domain. Moreover we also received false copyright strikes, and YouTube declined to let us challenge these, for instance from public gmail accounts, or for content which was created by us. […]
[…] The channel is otherwise in good terms, and we only have a small number of videos with copyright claims on it, videos where we use for instance copyrighted music, and fully comply with accepting the claims from other content creators. Additional we regularly receive copyright claims which are false, copyright claims for content which has been published into the public domain. Moreover we also received false copyright strikes, and YouTube declined to challenge these, for instance from public gmail accounts, or for content which was entirely created by us. […]
[…] The channel is otherwise in good terms, and we only have a small number of videos with copyright claims on it, videos where we use for instance copyrighted music, and fully comply with accepting the claims from other content creators. Additional we regularly receive copyright claims which are false, copyright claims for content which has been published into the public domain. Moreover we also received false copyright strikes, and YouTube declined to challenge these, for instance from public gmail accounts, or for content which was entirely created by us. […]
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