The plaintiffs want the court to compel the production of relevant documents since they relate to an important legal argument relating to YouTube’s liability for infringing content on its platform. The letter says that since October 2020, discovery requests relating to YouTube’s ‘Autoplay’ feature have resulted in the production of “less than a hundred” internal documents (including PowerPoint presentations) but no email or instant message communications.
Similar complaints have been made in the other direction too but this time around, the requests relate to an interesting legal theory. In broad terms, it again claims that YouTube isn’t producing enough documents in a timely manner as part of discovery. Last month, counsel for Maria Schneider and the putative class filed a letter motion with US District Judge James Donato. Documents Relating to YouTube’s ‘Autoplay’ Feature Quite how the plaintiffs are able to match Google’s bottomless financial pit is unknown, but at times they are raising some interesting questions, some of which relate to YouTube’s DMCA safe harbor protections. With the case now spanning three years, both sides are still willing to spend huge sums of money fighting their respective corners. The complaint, which alleges mass infringement and serious deficiencies in YouTube’s copyright enforcement measures, has seen the exposure of fraud and calls from YouTube to have the whole case dismissed. “This event has shone a light on an underlying problem on the platform: It’s 2022, and there are countless smaller creators out there, many of which engaged in this discussion, that continue to be hit daily by these false claims on both videos and livestreams,” Lofi Girl wrote in a tweet.A class action lawsuit filed in 2020 by musician Maria Schneider against YouTube is showing no sign of a conclusion. Lofi Girl noted that an accidental takedown in 2020 also took the account offline, and called for a stronger vetting process for DMCA claims at YouTube. Game creater Bungie decided to take one creator to court after they allegedly filed nearly 100 fake copyright claims. Malicious copyright strikes are hardly a new incident on YouTube. What gives them the right to take down the best channel on youtube,” wrote the user. Now their livestreams can't be accessed in Malaysia. “For context, I was studying while listening to lofi girl before both of their streams got taken down by a certain FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia. In a Reddit thread on r/Malaysia entitled, “Who the hell is FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia and why did they copywrite strike lofi girl?”, a despondent fan urged others to “make some noise” on the record label’s socials.
In an ironic twist, Lofi Girl also has a considerable Malaysian fanbase, who were also quite unhappy about the channel’s removal. Most of Lofi Girl’s largely Gen-Z and younger Millennial fanbase rely on the music to study, relax or meditate. The relatively unknown record label was hit hard with online abuse over the weekend, as fans of Lofi Girl flocked to its social media channels and demanded to know why it filed the fake claim. Its YouTube account has since returned back online. The record label said that it reported the incident to Google. A spokesperson from the label told local news site Malaysiakini that hackers broke into its YouTube account to file the copyright infringement claim.
#YOUTUBE DMCA UPDATE#
Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it.īut FMC Music is alleging that it is also a victim in this affair. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. “Confirmed the takedown requests were abusive & terminated the claimants account 😔 we've resolved the strikes + reinstated your vids – it can sometimes take 24-48 hours for everything to be back to normal! so sorry this happened & thx for your patience as we sorted it out,” wrote YouTube on Twitter, in response to Lofi Girl’s request on Monday that the streams be reinstated. After receiving a counterclaim from the creators of Lofi Girl, YouTube manually reviewed FMC’s complaint and came to the conclusion that the record label had no ownership over the music. The origin of the DMCA claims came from FMC Music, a Malaysian record label. In a tweet, the owner of the Lofi Girl channel - which has been streaming relaxing ambient music since 2017 - announced that the streams have relaunched after a nearly 48-hour hiatus. A much-loved YouTube account featuring calm hip-hop beats is back online today, after two popular radio live streams (the oldest of which has been playing non-stop for two years) got yanked from the platform due to bogus copyright claims.
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