Stolen AMVS

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:13 pm

My Naruto Ball Z video was constantly uploaded on youtube with the credits chopped off. One french guy got over 17 million views from it.

I contacted that french guy to take it down and he apologized and complied with my request.

It sucks when it happens, but at least try to contact the person who did it. But since this guy doesn't speak english, not sure what you can do.

neko kitkat · Post by **neko kitkat** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:23 pm

[quote="Castor Troy"]My Naruto Ball Z video was constantly uploaded on youtube with the credits chopped off. One french guy got over 17 million views from it.

I contacted that french guy to take it down and he apologized and complied with my request.

It sucks when it happens, but at least try to contact the person who did it. But since this guy doesn't speak english, not sure what you can do.

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I remember when I went to YT and saw several of re-posting of your amv. Some claiming they made it with different descriptions and dates. It was very odd and I knew they were stolen. I think most took them down. But I haven't checked since it basically premiered so I honestly don't know if they are still up. I am happy you managed to get a formal apology though. It really bites but it does happen. I am sorry it also happened to you too. *HUG*

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:45 pm

If you really care to do something about it, the trick is to coordinate multiple take-down requests all at the same time. If you get 3 strikes all at once, the account is immediately suspended and can't protest any of the claims.

AceD · Post by **AceD** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:57 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:If you really care to do something about it, the trick is to coordinate multiple take-down requests all at the same time. If you get 3 strikes all at once, the account is immediately suspended and can't protest any of the claims.

Not exactly true since I got one of my 4/5 year old channels returned to me after been banned all that time. Also, larger channels have access to direct support with google staff, so people falsely claiming like that can easily have it turned around on them.

Well not that any of those kind of channels can do any of that anyway

seasons · Post by **seasons** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:15 am

How do you "steal" AMVs, anyway? Where would you get it from if it's not hosted on the Org?

I mean, unless you're using a website to make low-quality rips of videos on Youtube.

I love how this is the total package: obvious garbage-quality rip of someone else's AMV, dumb channel logo stuck on the corner and super-annoying 30-second bumper inserted at the start of the video.

ngsilver · Post by **ngsilver** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 5:53 pm

I've had many of my videos uploaded to youtube over the years. It's a common practice I've seen of people grabbin videos here on the org and then putting them on youtube. I haven't run into anyone claiming the vids were theirs, but even if I did I wouldn't care much really. We don't exactly own any real rights to the work we do, we steal other people's work and make it our own. Yeah, I agree it's bad form to take shot for shot the same vid from someone and claim it your own without doing anything to make it yours, but I don't get up in arms about it. It's going to happen, and usually the video that's put up is lower quality then the original cuz' good luck stealing the actual project files from the editor.

This has been happening for a long time, as far as I can remember in the world of AMVs. I've seen people submit vids to contents that they blatantly stole. Usually coordinators can pick it out, but sometimes it's hard.

slimed · Post by **slimed** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 6:24 pm

ngsilver wrote:We don't exactly own any real rights to the work we do, we steal other people's work and make it our own.

this is my stance. we do the same thing but even on a larger scale. while it is distasteful, i wouldn't personally care so much if someone were to download a video of mine and claim it as their own; it's not as though it would discredit the work i put into it in any way.

but like said above, this is something that has always happened and always will. there isn't much that can be done

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:39 pm

i'm ok with people uploading my amvs to YouTube as long as they're unaltered.

Why go through the extra trouble of removing stuff anyways?

YouTube · Post by **Rider4Z** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:25 am

Castor Troy wrote:i'm ok with people uploading my amvs to YouTube as long as they're unaltered.

Why go through the extra trouble of removing stuff anyways?

I've never had an issue of anyone claiming my work as their own. For the most part I don't mind other people uploading my stuff, but I CAN'T STAND IT when they pitch the audio. my most viewed video on youtube has over 700,000 views uploaded by somebody else who altered the audio. GAWD that grinds my gears.

AceD · Post by **AceD** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:32 am

People needed to alter the audio years ago though otherwise it was near impossible to keep some videos up. It sucks but that was the trade off needed. Thankfully youtube is a much easier place nowadays and such things are not needed

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