> After reviewing your dispute, IMG has decided their copyright claim is still valid (response to a dispute)
> The claimant can request that your video be removed ... if they believe their claim is still valid (response to an appeal)
Question: Does it seem strange that YouTube has the copyright claimant decide on disputes and appeals of their own copyright claims?
This seems like a court in which the plaintiff is also the judge. How can this possibly work?
If I were a troll and just wanted to make life for people needlessly hard, could I submit claims for random videos and simply reject all disputes and appeals - and if someone tried to sue me, say I was just playing by the Content ID rules and didn't invoke actual copyright law at all? What would happen?
> Question: Does it seem strange that YouTube has the copyright claimant decide on disputes and appeals of their own copyright claims?
From a very cynical perspective: Not really, it makes perfect sense as it is the cheapest option that also empowers the people who can make youtube's life a misery. (The big corporations that file these claims).
Hiring third party people to decide these or whatever mechanism you can think of would be more expensive for youtube than what they have now.
Then Google will ban you. And by "you" Google means a person, not and email account. So they will carpet bomb all your accounts what they think may belong to you, across all their services. Some people even report bans of work accounts where fallback linked emails were personal account which was the source of the ban.
> The claimant can request that your video be removed ... if they believe their claim is still valid (response to an appeal)
Question: Does it seem strange that YouTube has the copyright claimant decide on disputes and appeals of their own copyright claims?
This seems like a court in which the plaintiff is also the judge. How can this possibly work?
If I were a troll and just wanted to make life for people needlessly hard, could I submit claims for random videos and simply reject all disputes and appeals - and if someone tried to sue me, say I was just playing by the Content ID rules and didn't invoke actual copyright law at all? What would happen?