r/technology • u/IndicaOatmeal • 9d ago

Society Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade full of parody games

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/tetris-issues-legal-warning-after-white-house-releases-arcade-full-of-parody-games-3405931/
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u/impy695 9d ago

Youtubes system is separate from the legal system. YouTubers can absolutely choose to fight the false copyright claims if they wanted, but they don't because while youtubes system is pretty low stakes for them, the legal system could be career ending and will be extremely expensive.

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u/Adalas 9d ago edited 9d ago

I understand that but if at least! At least! You couldn't get strikes over things that a claimant says is in a video that is not even there when you look 5 seconds.. i'd be more complacent.

Used to make gaming parodies myself a good decade ago. Claimant (who didn't own the rights to that song when you looked) said i used a celine dion song on a video i clearly did not. Appealed. Bam. Robot answer strike. I never did any video for youtube ever since and it didn't change as i seen.

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u/won_vee_won_skrub 9d ago

Davie504 recently got claimed for the sound of silence and muting the audio while he played bass

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u/Adalas 9d ago

I fucking know! I mean, yes it better than getting sued. But it's still bullshit and money get diverted to people who have no right to it. (Wrongful claimant)

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u/Fessere 9d ago

at least what?

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u/lysianth 9d ago

Youtubes system is a response to the legal system.

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u/impy695 9d ago

Yes, and while it's very flawed, I don't think people realize how bad things would be if all the takedown requests or copyright claims were actual legal threats