DMCA complain for an embed youtube official video?

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by ardit2012, Sep 8, 2012.

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    I got a notification from google webmaster tools for an embed video in my site which is a music video from an official production video company.
    The same company who have uploaded have sent the claim to Google. Even it is in their official channel. And embed code is enabled on this Youtube video.
    Is this a normal claim?
    They are sending claim to all the sites who have a good SEO. So it's not personal to me.
    Should I have to fill an counter claim?
    I would appreciate any help or experience.

     
    ardit2012, Sep 8, 2012 IP
  2. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    Post more details like links to the youtube page etc. so folks like techdirt may or may not pick it up. That sort of thing makes me freaking irate.

    Nigel
     
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  3. ardit2012

    ardit2012 Peon

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    Thank you Nigel, I cant provide the url as I have only 8 posts. (Live links and signatures are not available to you yet.)
    Anyway I am writting with the spaces:
    goo . gl / pFjYj
     
    ardit2012, Sep 9, 2012 IP
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    I'm sorry to hear this, this is a weird one because Google are Youtube which is weird, why dont Youtube just ban the video this would mean that it woudnt appear on your site anymore, if i was you i would just take the video down and be done with it, forget about it, dmca is annoying but if someone owns the copyright to something they can tell other people what to and what not too do with it
     
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  5. neroux

    neroux Active Member

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    As far as I can see you are neither located in the US nor do you host in the US. So a DCMA does not even apply to you. Furthermore you are not even hosting anything. The only possible risk I see is that you are using a .net domain and your registrar is godaddy (well-known for playing internet police). Apart from that I wouldnt see much to worry about.
     
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  6. ardit2012

    ardit2012 Peon

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    They dont ban the video because they are the same company. They are also partner in Youtube.
    They just dont want to appear other sites on google search results while searching: Artist - Songname.
    But the problem is not just one url, they own a lot of good known artist. Uploaded over 8000 videos, 20,045 subscribers, 131,525,414 video views.

    If they started this, they will do the same with all them.
     
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  7. omgcats

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    A lot of big companies use automated software to send out DMCA notices, and they end up sending out a lot of invalid takedown notices to sites like IMDB or sites that are reviewing their movies/music. It's most likely that your page was falsely identified by an automated program.

    You haven't done anything wrong, and you have two choices: 1) you can remove the video and request re-inclusion (Google has a specific form for this) or 2) you can send a counter-claim saying that you haven't done anything wrong. Google has recently said that they are going to start using the number of valid DMCA takedowns against a site a ranking signal, and if you don't go the route of a counter-claim you are basically saying that the takedown was valid. But it's not so I would encourage you to leave the video up and send a counter-claim: http://support.google.com/bin/request.py?&contact_type=lr_counternotice
     
    omgcats, Sep 17, 2012 IP