YouTube, an American
video-sharing site headquartered in San Bruno, California, has settled the lawsuit against Christopher Brady, who attempted to extort ‘Minecraft’ creators
by falsely flagging their videos over Copyright
Infringement and refused to cease unless they paid him.
In Brady’s official
apology, which is a part of this settlement, Christopher L. Brady admitted that
he had provided YouTube with dozens of notices falsely claiming that matter
uploaded by YouTube users infringed his copyrights. Mr. Brady wrote that he
apologized to the YouTube community, to YouTube itself, and to the YouTube
users who are directly impacted by his actions.
As per the settlement
terms, Brady will also pay $25,000, which YouTube intends to donate to
non-profit advocacy that advocates on behalf of ‘Minecraft’ creators.
YouTube spokesperson
Farshad Shadloo, in a statement, said that this settlement puts light on the
real consequences for those who attempt to misuse their copyright work.
Besides, they will continue their practice to prevent further abuse of their
creator’s works.
YouTube filed against
Brady in August this year, after witnessing complaints, tweeted by two
Minecraft-focused creators – Kenzo with 462K subscribers and ObbyRaidz with
11.4K subscribers, stating that Christopher had filed false copyright claims
against them. The plaints explained that Brady, who used more than 15 different
identities, targeted these two and many other creators by filing some manual
copyright claims alleging creators’ channels had stolen his content. The
channels then got one copyright strike for every claim. As YouTube holds a
three-strikes-and-you-are-out system with copyright infringement, a third
strike would have led grounds for the end of the creators’ channels.
After the second
strike, Brady served creators with the messages demanding money in exchange for
canceling the previous two strikes and not filing a channel-terminating third
strike.
Through the messages,
Brady communicated that once they receive their payment, they will cancel both
strikes on creators’ channels. On the other hand, if creators decide not to pay
the set amount, they will file a third strike. He also wrote that the creators
have very little time to make their decision. The sum that he demanded ranges
from $100 to $300.
The strikes were
removed from Kenzo’s and ObbyRaidz’s channels after they notified YouTube.
YouTube said that they
regularly terminate accounts of those who misuse their copyright system.
Nevertheless, in this case of egregious abuse where the copyright removal
method was related to extortion, they felt compelled to pursue further towards
legal action and to make it clear that they do not tolerate abuse of their
platform or its users. For view-source: https://www.kashishipr.com/blog/youtube-settles-lawsuit-against-christopher-for-false-copyright-claims/
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