The YouTube channel Intelligence Squared issued a copyright strike against me and threatened to sue for uploading this 4 minute clip so that I and my subscribers could have some commentary and analysis about it. This interview was slammed in the comment section of the full thing - the comment section for this upload was trending that way very early. They claimed infringement within a couple of hours of me posting this, and then I found out from the larger creator community that they are notorious for this and everyone either backs off or doesn't monetize their content. Almost everyone else who conducts these interviews either appreciates the clipping when done right because it creates buzz and the news coverage funnels additional views, but some will ask to take the revenue from any ads (which I gladly agree to - have done it with Crowder, Russell Brand, and Norm Macdonald). Only morons who don't understand how they're going to hurt themselves in the long run issue a copyright strike against an independent journalist just because his channel is small and they think he'll panic, roll over and retreat against his principles. The quality of the interview reflects the quality of judgment of the person at ISquared who issued a manual copyright claim (look at the few comments that had come in before they struck it - wonder if that was a factor).
My counter-claim cited fair use with the following arguments:
-I am an accredited, published journalist with a well-established presence on YouTube
-I cover JBP and the intellectual dark web
-The original was clearly and prominently credited - accessible via a link visible in the description that did not have to be "unhidden" through "show more" and which users merely had to click on to see the full interview, which there were clearly encouraged to do
-The clip was a small portion of the original
-No reasonable person could conclude that my channel stole market share from ISquared
-The poor quality of the interview was itself a news story worthy of coverage (which I have a well-established history of doing)
-That once this was resolved I would be exposing ISquared's frivolous abuse of the YouTube copyright system
They backed off. As far as I can tell I am now the only channel on YouTube that can run ads on content generated from my news coverage, and commentary and analysis, of the IDW even if it's sourced from Intelligence Squared, but there may be others.
Comments
(Short Spike)
At this point J.P. is hitting cult level and I don't mind him. He's definetly not the destination of reason though.
(Old Spike)
Whatever you think of his reason, if he can convert a large portion of Christian fundies to the JBP Church of Christ I think that would be a step in the right direction that would benefit us all on the whole.
(Old Spike)
It's interesting the side comment he made about marxism serving a power elite. I wonder what views he'd admit to in a private conversation with someone he trusts.
(Old Spike)
I believe he would be more comfortable getting specific about metaphysical speculations with someone like me if he trusted me and it was private.
(Old Spike)
I wanna know what his wrongthink views are. The ones he filters out for political expediency.