Welcome to The Grok Shop! In this video I'm going to demo how to submit a
multiple-count copyright complaint against a nefarious Facebook user. Now,
sometimes someone may copy your content innocently; in that case you may want to
just contact the user directly. But in cases like this where it's repeated
offenses we're going to go ahead and just go right after him. This will be the
third copyright complaint against this person. This guy is basically ripping off
my wife's YouTube channel. Okay, so the preferred way is gonna be to use
Facebook's copyright report form and I'll put this link in the description
below. Right, so my wife has this channel called Good Morning Vietnam. It's a
Vietnamese children's contentand this is not her page this is the bad actors
page and there's just copy after copy after copy on here. We've already taken
down his logo which is a copy of our logo. Here you can see her website and on
this website of course we have a link to our actual Facebook page which this is
her Facebook page and Chi Bi Do is what she goes by which means sister pumpkin
in Vietnamese. There's the link to her page. So, in my experience Facebook is
basically a bunch of jerks when it comes to this kind of stuff. They really don't
help you much when you have multiple infringements; like usually YouTube
Google, other platforms will take down the whole channel or the whole
infringers page. Facebook doesn't want to do it that way. In addition to that they
don't want to help you defend your trademark unless you have officially
registered it and which for smaller channels it's it's it's an expense that
a lot of people save for later. And they don't seem to be wanting to help small
guys very much so we actually have a battle with them going on right now with
trademark protection. So proceeding to the form, now we want to tick that
bottom button: "I found content which I believe
infringed my copyright" and blah blah blah. Continue
with copyright report. So you do need to provide your actual real name and
physical address and phone number for this kind of stuff I recommend: use your
business address or PO box or something of that type nature. You don't want to
put your actual home address just because you don't know what kind of
crazies could end up with your information. You know what I mean?
so now we need to tell them where's the nefarious content so we click the button
for provide content you want to report in our case photo video or post and now
they provide a text area for reporting the nefarious URLs so for this
submission I'm going to go after this little group of three videos here just
gonna click on them one at a time then you can copy the URLs from the address
bar control see
so now they want to know why are you reporting this content so there's a
pulldown here we'll just select well this content copies my work alright next
is show me time so we want to tick provide your copyrighted work pull from
the drop-down in this case a video and we got this text area to put in our
original source videos that they copied from so if you have thousands of videos
like my wife it can be hard to find but in this case this guy wasn't too crafty
I'm just gonna copy the name go right over to YouTube and search and there it
is right off the bat I'll just quickly confirm that it is the right video and
it does look like the one and so now back in the form will paste in source
video so then now it's pretty much gonna be rinse and repeat for the remaining
two videos so for sure Facebook is much more responsive with the copyright
infringement reports than they are with trademark infringement and if you don't
have your trademark registered they seem to think they don't have to do anything
about it of course that's not true in US law if if you're the first to use a
trademark in commerce you have the right to defend it and so Facebook is gonna
eventually have a come-to-jesus and figure all this out I think and we're
working on helping them understand that ourselves if you've had any issues with
facebook not responding to your copyrights or your trademark
infringement complaints I'd like to hear from you please let me know in comments
below
so here's a case where they got crafty and tried to
change the name of the video to some other... the name of some other video
and make it a little more difficult to find so it had to be careful when you're
plowing through these not to accidentally put the wrong video in
there or a redo on your hands
so when you're done with all
the URLs just basically took off the final few boxes put your name in click
Submit and I find that sends you a confirmation
email right away and then usually within one or two business days they'll take
the content down that's been my experience that's how it's done
thanks for watching