A YouTuber who fought for his rights and a copyright holder who didn’t play by the rules forced a change to YouTube’s “fair use” policy.
And that means your videos may be protected in one country, while taken down in another.
YouTuber Mark Fitzpatrick (AKA “Not Totally Mark”) received over 150 copyright claim notices recently by Japanese Anime company Toei Animation, the creator of the classic animated series Dragon Ball Z.
For the past three years, Fitzpatrick’s channel has been largely centered around reviewing anime programs and movies, and he was faced with seeing his channel potentially terminated overnight and losing his audience of 700,000 subscribers. It was a rude awakening.
To make matters worse, nearly half of the videos that Toei was claiming copyright on didn’t have anything to do with their intellectual property, other than being an inspiration for learning how to draw anime characters in a how-to fashion.
Author: James DeRuvo
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
