Open letter to Google:
Whereas you take copyright seriously when monetised videos are copied by others your robots and people are useless. My video is Video A and the copier is video B (Video A: http://youtu.be/japxbr3vJ2M
Video B: http://youtu.be/tp9bChBjsEI). Video A came first and I created it. Video B came second and acknowledges video A. I made a copyright complaint. You took down video B only to reinstate it as I could not afford to take legal action against an address in Russia, given I operate from the UK. The counter copyright claim of video B was a lie and any judge or jury could observe both videos, but instead of making independent decisions to safeguard your partners you effectively have no copyright protection at all, as abusers can simply lie and you take this lie at face value. I deal with a giant faceless bureaucracy only interested in making money and covering its ass that offers plenty of copyright protection to big business but not to ordinary content producers like me.
Context: YouTube allows users to make copyright complaints. After the copyright abuser is informed of this they can file a counter claim. In the above case, the counter claimant swore that the material had been misidentified. Google then gives you, the complainer ten days to respond to the effect that you should take legal action against an address in a foreign country such as Russia or China. If you can't afford to do this, the copyright violator's video is reinstated. It should be up to YouTube to see into the claim rather than for users to take legal action as Google hosts both videos.
Google takes copyright claims if big business seriously and pulls down videos but ordinary content producers who often produce the most interesting content are not protected at all. All it takes to abuse your copyright is to simply claim you didn't and in the absence of legal action, YouTube considers the matter closed. They could easily compare Video A against Video B and respect the primacy of the contents on Video A but don't bother. They expose their users to copyright theft and don't seem to worry about a breach of trust.
