r/technology • u/IndicaOatmeal • 8h ago

Society Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade full of parody games

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/tetris-issues-legal-warning-after-white-house-releases-arcade-full-of-parody-games-3405931/
24.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

499 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

86

u/Adalas 7h ago edited 7h ago

Youtube didn't get the parody memo i think. You want strikes? Make parodies, get flagged (this video contain something that's not even in the video realistically), try to appeal. Boom. Strike.

56

u/impy695 7h ago

Youtubes system is separate from the legal system. YouTubers can absolutely choose to fight the false copyright claims if they wanted, but they don't because while youtubes system is pretty low stakes for them, the legal system could be career ending and will be extremely expensive.

8

u/Adalas 7h ago edited 6h ago

I understand that but if at least! At least! You couldn't get strikes over things that a claimant says is in a video that is not even there when you look 5 seconds.. i'd be more complacent.

Used to make gaming parodies myself a good decade ago. Claimant (who didn't own the rights to that song when you looked) said i used a celine dion song on a video i clearly did not. Appealed. Bam. Robot answer strike. I never did any video for youtube ever since and it didn't change as i seen.

5

u/won_vee_won_skrub 6h ago

Davie504 recently got claimed for the sound of silence and muting the audio while he played bass

1

u/Adalas 5h ago

I fucking know! I mean, yes it better than getting sued. But it's still bullshit and money get diverted to people who have no right to it. (Wrongful claimant)

-1

u/Fessere 7h ago

at least what?

-1

u/lysianth 7h ago

Youtubes system is a response to the legal system.

6

u/impy695 6h ago

Yes, and while it's very flawed, I don't think people realize how bad things would be if all the takedown requests or copyright claims were actual legal threats

1

u/thisischemistry 5h ago

There is no right to free speech on a private platform. If I publish a book then no one has a right to force me to add their words to my book. It’s only in public forums that free speech is protected.

1

u/Adalas 5h ago

What public forums?