I just thought I'd post to mention that disputing the blocking of a vid isn't without it's pitfalls..... I recently made my first new vid in over a year and posted it on Youtube. It was caught by the recognition program for audio infringement and blocked. Remembering something about this post I searched for it, and armed with Morgandawn's words above lodged a dispute - the vid was allowed online.
Full of 'Fair Use Fervour' I decided to try the dispute process with two out of about five vids that had been blocked over the past couple of years (despite this my account has always said it is in 'Good Standing')- one for audio and one for video. They both came back online and I was *most* happy. Then, yesterday, I got an email stating -
"In response to your dispute of a video identification match, FOX reviewed your video Insatiable - Buffy (Buffy/Angel) and confirmed their claim to some or all of its visual content."
Well, I thought, at least I tried. An hour later I went to my Youtube account to find it had been suspended. No notification of why it has been deleted has been sent to me, although I've now just managed to find a page to ask exactly why it was suspended, and request (rather futilely I expect) that it be reinstated.
So it's back to imeem for me, saying goodbye (well actually not, as I can't) to my Youtube subscribers, and to all the stats and comments for my vids over the past couple of years.
Youtube Account Suspended after lodging a dispute
Full of 'Fair Use Fervour' I decided to try the dispute process with two out of about five vids that had been blocked over the past couple of years (despite this my account has always said it is in 'Good Standing')- one for audio and one for video. They both came back online and I was *most* happy. Then, yesterday, I got an email stating -
"In response to your dispute of a video identification match, FOX reviewed your video Insatiable - Buffy (Buffy/Angel) and confirmed their claim to some or all of its visual content."
Well, I thought, at least I tried. An hour later I went to my Youtube account to find it had been suspended. No notification of why it has been deleted has been sent to me, although I've now just managed to find a page to ask exactly why it was suspended, and request (rather futilely I expect) that it be reinstated.
So it's back to imeem for me, saying goodbye (well actually not, as I can't) to my Youtube subscribers, and to all the stats and comments for my vids over the past couple of years.
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