And I think once we get into this, you're going to see the proof that Universal,
as expected, are abusing the YouTube copyright system
has long been suspected that companies on YouTube
are abusing the copyright system just to take down videos
that they don't really like.
Does it
matter of the fair use and companies Now they can just fill in a form
and within an hour or so have a video completely blocked everywhere.
Universal's the studio that constantly do this,
and I'm sure that there's
hundreds of YouTube is watching this who've been through a similar
sort of experience to what I'm going to talk about.
The only difference is we actually have an email from the company
that basically outlines that this is indeed their policy.
Now, I was talking to film speak about this
the other day, a great YouTube channel.
He actually did a video essay on Jurassic World.
Dominion said lots of positive things about it.
He was one of the only people that actually liked the movie.
And then out of the blue,
for some random reason, he got hit with a block video pulled down.
He had to appeal
and then it sort of led into a similar thing to what I'm going to talk about now.
I've obviously run into this problem a number of times before
because we do deal with a lot of spoilers.
Whether you think reviewers should be able to go see a movie and then come home
and talk about what happens in a way that is your opinion.
You know, some people are going to say you shouldn't ever do that.
Some people will just say, Well, you know, these videos are for people
who've seen the movie.
They want a more in-depth discussion beyond, This was good.
I didn't like this bet.
You know, we try and take things up to a different level where we analyze
themes in a film or talk about Easter eggs or,
you know,
in the case of a marvel movie,
we will talk about how it compares to the comics
and where things could be going in the future.
And it's difficult to talk about those things
if you don't at least talk about the elements of what's happening in the movie.
A lot of studios embrace this For as bad as people say
that Disney is never run into a problem with them.
Talking about all of their movies openly sometimes have said
good things, sometimes have said bad things.
And I think they understand that word of mouth around the film.
It gets conversation going.
If you look at the whole Ant-Man Quantumania thing going on at the moment,
you've got people saying, The movie's terrible,
you've got people saying it's great, it's the best thing ever.
And at the heart of it is this discussion of, you know, go see for yourself.
You decide which side of the can be fallen.
I'm not sure. I'm like movies, whether you like them or not.
You have to admit that they are interesting films.
At least people want to talk about them.
People want to hear other people talk about them.
And that was very much why we decided to cover knock out the cabin.
Now, before we get to that,
I just want to talk about exactly what fair use is and what it's defined as.
So you can't just take a movie and uploaded to YouTube.
You're breaking someone else's copyright. That is their work.
You are taking it, publishing it.
However, if you do say a six second clip from that movie where you talk about
what the themes are, what's happening,
your interpretation of it, and also you thought that's fair use.
Now, if you make a video like that, you're not just re uploading the movie,
you are talking in-depth about that film, what you take from it,
what your analysis is, what you see, the ending is being.
And it's very much a conversation with your commentary that is your work.
For example, say say you sat at the bus stop with your friend.
You're talking about no way home.
You're saying what's gone on in it.
You're getting your phone out, you showing it
being like, oh, look at this picture from this bet.
A movie studio can't come along and say, you are not allowed to talk about this.
It's very much the same case on YouTube.
As long as you're adding commentary, discussion, a review,
it's it's committed to fair use.
Basically, if you're making it into something new, it's something you.
You own it.
Someone just can't come along and take that away from you.
But that's exactly what Universal are doing.
Now, asked Jarrett if he wanted to cover Knock Out the Cabin,
obviously, and make movies like you've said. Very interesting.
He thought he could get something from it.
He went out, stayed up all night writing, recording, got up the next day.
I think he had like 2 hours sleep, made the whole video spon, uploaded it.
It did really, really well.
It was really well made video.
Very proud of the guy for putting that together.
Now, we've actually had issues in the past where we've run into stuff.
And for example, he did the same thing on Halloween ends.
He went out and I handed the job over to him.
I went out for like the first time
in about six months with my friends because we obviously just had kids.
I was out, got notification at 1 a.m.
saying, Your video has been blocked.
No reason why it was completely fair review of Halloween ends
and I just rushed home drunkenly to meet him
and it wasn't very was very good uploaded it and that was fine.
But ever since then that's kind of stuck in my mind.
So every time we've made one of these movie reviews for a universal film,
we've uploaded two copies of the channel.
One's being private and one's being public.
So if the public one gets blocked, which often happens with universal,
we can instantly put the private one public and that'll be fine.
We actually did that with Knock at the Cabin
and it was online for ten days,
the main video and I just deleted off the other one
because it was taking up room in my dashboard.
Anyway, everything seems great.
Maybe universal, maybe not going to be dicks for once.
Now we're putting a blog the next day and basically what that means is
your video can't be seen by anyone.
It's demonetized you channels kind of like you were in trouble
and all the money you've made goes directly to Universal.
So those ten days it was online that goes to them.
So my company has lost money.
You know, I've got to pay Jared's wages.
I've got to pay editors myself.
All that money gone.
So it's like ten days worth of money completely taken away by Universal now,
because it's fair use.
I instantly disputed it by that because this was a stricter block.
And that block remains in place of 48 hours.
And Universal have seven days to basically say yes or no.
This you know what this is fair use ought to be like,
No, no, this is the movie. They've just uploaded it.
This is our you haven't transformed it in any way.
Now, those 48 hours, that's just the policy YouTube has in place.
I don't think it's right.
I think once you dispute the video,
especially if you've got quite a good standing where you make nothing
but fair use videos, I think that you go online instantly again.
But, you know, 48 hours that that's blocked
and it basically gives universal, say, that amount of time to put something
together gets to the 47th hour
just about to go live Universal come in go.
Actually, you know what?
He has stolen our
content so it gets blocked again for another 24 hours
and that deadline of the five days gets pushed to another seven.
Absolutely ridiculous.
And unfortunately, the way YouTube works is you are guilty until proven innocent.
If someone claims your video, they say it's theirs.
Don't have to provide any proof.
Just say, yeah, that's mine.
It's not fair use. The video gets taken down.
So what comes next? Well, I've got a couple of options.
I can delete the video, lose all the money from it goes to Universal.
But that's a loser.
So Jared's wasted his time completely.
We've lost all the money,
which we could have been doing something more productive,
which is why we tend to cover more Disney and Warner Brothers stuff.
Because Universal.
So if I don't do that, which I won't because it's a failure, video
will get a copyright strike and then I'll have to go through
another appeals process to get that taken away.
The video will be blocked again.
I'll have to fill in the form YouTube's copyright team then have to review.
That normally takes about five days.
Then they decide whether the video can go back online again, which sucks.
Very stressful
because as many of you know, if you get three strikes, each channel gets deleted.
So I lose my job. George loses his job.
And as Matt and Steve, they lose their jobs, got families to support them.
You know, I'm clearing out my house can move in at the moment.
Got a mortgage lots of stress because someone in an office
somewhere has just decided to do this for the sake of doing it.
So this is the first time I've ever done it.
Spoke to someone legally who contacted Universal.
Now I'm going to read out what that email is a blocked out their name
because I don't want this specific person getting in trouble.
But this is the response.
And yeah, it just backs it up that Universal are purposely doing this
purposely targeting people even though it goes against values.
So basically my rap is like, yeah, I work with an outlet called Heavy Spoilers.
This video has been blocked, blah, blah blah.
The person replies.
Hi Mo. Just jumping in here.
Can we check what time of material slash content was within the heavy spoilers
piece that might lead to a copyright flack getting a means type of material?
It would need to look into it further for you.
We have, where possible,
try to limit the amount of spoilers mentioned in pieces,
and particularly for my film.
We want to maintain the secrecy and intrigue.
Even if the film is out.
We do endeavor to keep things as fresh for audiences as possible.
So I completely understand your point and promotion,
which is giving an overview of things from our side.
But they are openly admitting there that they will block videos.
Doesn't matter.
They will just block them if they decide that they want to keep it that way.
They might be thinking that's fair enough for an AM not movie.
But again, that is your opinion on the matter.
That's not the law.
That's not what things say on YouTube.
The terms of service says
you cannot flag a face video and if you do, you are abusing the system.
I went back to Split and that was released on the 20th of January.
Guess who put out a spoiler podcast on the 23rd
with happy, sad, confused with M Night Shyamalan spoiling his own movie
three days after our video had been out for ten days.
And then it gets flagged.
So it's just the it's the company basically enforcing and being like,
you know what?
We're going to intimidate this guy and to delete in his video.
We don't care that he's worked on it.
You know, Jared spent ages doing it, poor Jared.
And it's just getting ridiculous.
Universal do this all the time.
There's so many other studios.
I mean, Disney gets such a bad rap and
the reason why there's so many negative videos
about Disney on YouTube is because they don't really care.
And we'll let people discuss the company
because they're not going to go after people.
And the fact that there's so many of those online shows that they're not
abusing the system to take videos down might be bootlegging a bit.
Did you skip quantumania or bad review?
Some might be trying to get back in the good books,
but yeah, Universal Sony YouTube is out there.
I'm going to have similar stories to what I've got and the only difference is
they've never had a statement back from the person working PR.
I think that shows that they are basically admitting that, you know, yeah,
we actually want to keep things secret even after release.
I haven't seen anything.
I never agreed to do that.
Never went to a private screening.
Joe didn't go to a private screening, never signed an embargo thing, never broke
it, never broke embargo,
never signed an NDA saying he wouldn't talk about this stuff.
How are we supposed to know this?
How are we supposed
I mean, there's so many times that I've done a spoiler video for a universal film.
Nothing's happened.
But because there's some policy inside of that PR where they want to keep
things secret and intrigue, I've got to waste my time doing it.
We wouldn't have made the video if that had been clear from the start.
And it wasn't
because that just ten days later that clearly they've
looked at the box office for the film.
It's about to go on streaming and they clearly know crap.
We've kind of we've kind of shot ourselves in the foot with this release.
It's not in as well as we want and what can we do to get people to see it?
And I will just
there's a popular video talking about the ending,
which is block it and then hopefully people pay for it on VOD.
It's absolute ridiculous.
It's such a bad way to go about it.
And yeah, I just was so mad seeing that email
because it's them just making up the rules for themselves.
This is not in place on YouTube and the website article.
There's no way they can take that down because I own the website YouTube.
It's a completely different system.
They can say what they want and Universal they keep on doing this, having it
in black and white like that, written in an email.
You know, it just really annoys me because it's something
I've suspected for a while and I think Universal are just dickheads for doing it
now, obviously this isn't the CEO of Universal doing it, not blaming him.
I always think when this happens that someone's just sat in an office
they've been hired to be, you know, head of copyright on YouTube
and the boss will come in and be like, Well, have you done a day to me?
What? What have you done a day?
You know that guy, He does want to make it seem like he's done nothing.
So he's being like, had this video taken down.
I've had this one, too.
He's is filing false DMCA.
He's because you know this, there's no repercussions
and it makes it look like he's doing something.
Might be a woman might be being sexist, but in a way that it's doing this
harassing create is stopping people talking about their films
and also putting their channels in jeopardy.
So from here on out, sick of Universal,
I will cover their films because I saw them.
I'm not going to let this dickhead in the office Timmy spoil things for me.
But yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous. And I've now like this.
It's really annoyed me.
See, if you went through a similar sort of thing, let me know below.
I don't want to be putting out this video.
You know, I'm in the
middle of moving house and this is just extra stress that I don't need AMC.
I share this about.
If you've had a similar experience, I'm sure many of you have.
Hopefully we get the video back online very soon.
But yeah, that that's it in there.
Thanks. First sent in through this big rant don't we like doing it?
Very negative but
that's
that's the position that this, this movie studio put me in meant
to be entertaining people and it put me in this goddamn cinema, bitches.
I hope Disney is watching this as well, because there's lots of nice things
about them.
Get me back out there.
Thanks.
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