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Comment by infinitesoup | Hacker News Reader

> hold onto the revenue until the dispute is resolved

They do that: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7000961?hl=en

Caveat is if you file the counter within 5 days. From listening to a few creators describe the counter filing process, you need to gather a lot of evidence to prove that you are not infringing. It apparently takes a lot of time and what happens is that targeted harassment very easily turns into a DOS-like attack. So 5 days is an unreasonably short time window that puts an extreme burden on the content creator.

Edit to quote the full section because the cherry picked quote is misleading:

> If you dispute a claim within 5 days, any revenue from the video will be held, starting with the first day the claim was placed. If you dispute a Content ID claim after 5 days from the original claim date, we'll start holding revenue the date the dispute is made.

There's a guy on YouTube that does discussions about star wars, and has an into music that he got the rights to use from the author.

Someone who didn't have the rights resampled the original song and submitted it to a label (not sure that's the right term), and the label proceeded to DMCA every single video the guy had posted.

Over a thousand videos, having to gather all that info for all of them, go through the appeals process on all of them. For him it was a manual action one at a time. From the label they have an API to bulk initiate claims

There was also the example of family guy copy-pasting a 10 year old youtube video of an exploit of an old NES game into an episode, and that video which predates the episode by 10 years (or something) then got taken down because it infringed on the family guy episode that copied the video.

Hold on, A video that infringes will almost most certainly be a mix of their content and your own new content.

You should have to negotiate a percentage fee, not assume the claimant is entitled to 100%

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