copyright@youtube.com:
Hello there,
In order to take action on your request, we will need to receive a written communication (email is sufficient) that includes substantially the following (please consult your legal counsel or see Section 512(c)(3) of the Copyright Act to confirm these requirements):
(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
(v) A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
JXQ
Hi. In response to what you need for copyright infrigement, I am including the following information / questions.
1)
(All that was necessary was my real name, which they e-mailed me asking for. Whatever name you give them will be plastered up on the page of the movie you are trying to remove, so give a fake name if you are wary of that.)
2)
http://tasvideos.org/movies.cgi?id=447
http://tasvideos.org/movies.cgi?id=536
3)
(direct youtube links to videos)
4) My e-mail is:
(e-mail removed)
The complaining party:
(url of this person's youtube account)
Since you are youtube, I think you have the information necessary to contact this individual.
5) I believe that this person's use of the material specified above is not authorized by the copyright owner, it's agent, or the law.
6) I assert that the information in this notification is accurate.
Extra information:
First of all, the two pages specified in paragraph (2) contain the following words:
"Reproduction of all material from this site is expressly forbidden for the following sites: SpikedHumor.com , YouTube.com."
Secondly, your own user page states:
"You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that:
"(i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize YouTube to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service;"
These two statements should be enough for the removal of the videos in question.
copyright@youtube.com
Thank you very much for your notification, the content has been removed.
Hope this helps,
The YouTube Team
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This person's entire account got suspended, which was more than I expected to happen, but I think it's fair. I've seen others post our content on youtube, but with all the same information clearly stated in the description, and authors not taking credit for the video. That I have no problem with.
Anyway, I posted this in case someone else finds videos being misrepresented and they are wondering the procedure to do something about it.
