YouTube removed our Documentary Exposing the College Loan Debt Crisis
Today in our official CrushTheStreet YouTube Account we learned we just received a copyright strike on our March 2014 Documentary "The College Bubble" (later renamed to The College Loan Bubble).
Gordon College filed the claim. We're happy the documentary has been live for years and influenced thousands of students and people on this grand scheme and possible conspiracy to leech Americans money into the inefficient and near obsolete series of Colleges & Universities in America. It's still sad however that it is now removed, after nearly 200,000 views. Apparently a few seconds of this clip owned by them was mistakenly used in our documentary (near the beginning) and consequently our whole 13 minute video is now no longer available for viewing.
The message YouTube delivers when a strike is made now is as follows:
Why did this happen?
A copyright owner asked us to take down your video because they believe it contains material that violates their copyright.
- Title: The College Loan Bubble @CrushTheStreet #TheCollegeBubble
- Video ID: XfJBgaIrxiQ
What's a copyright strike?
When your video gets taken down due to a copyright complaint, you get a temporary penalty on your account called a "copyright strike." If you get 3 strikes within 3 months, you can lose access to your account.
What do I do now?
You can clear this strike by completing Copyright School and then waiting 3 months for it to expire. During this time, you can still use YouTube. Learn more
Think this was a mistake?
You can file a counter notification or ask the copyright owner to retract their claim.
I believe this is the first or second strike we've ever had on our channel. It expires October 25th.
Right now the only place left to view the first edition of The College Bubble on dailymotion as it is not available online but you can still view the sequel The College Bubble 2.0 on YouTube and on Vimeo.
The copyright system needs to be revised.
Government however is never proactive only reactive and most of the time hurts rather than helps. Ironically, corporations (including colleges) are proactively reacting to videos like this when it is in their best interest which it obviously is. Our video is frankly damaging to their prospects...reducing the wasted money spent on college tuition.
Thanks YouTube
At the end of the day YouTube has to protect their brand, for if there were enough backlash from owners of copyrighted material this platform may not even exist. They are mitigating damage and we're thankful this platform was made over 10 years ago on the mostly free internet.
Ridiculous censorship. A few seconds of "copyrighted" footage to remove a whole 13 minutes of educational material, WOW, a major college regressing against the education of Americans!
If it is just about a couple of seconds you can edit that fragment out and re-upload it. I doubt you can edit the video after this many views. Although they should provide the option when a copyright claim is filed.
I once uploaded a video from a dash-cam that caught a meteor in Russia. It happened minutes after the car was parked and all occupants had left the vehicle. But in the first part of the video you saw the car park and there was a radio playing music which caused a copyright strike. I edited the video, cut the beginning, containing the copyrighted material, out. Then I challenged the strike and added as an explanation that I completely removed the part with copyrighted material from the video. And the strike was retracted. But it was with a new video, normally YT won't let you edit videos that have had to many views.
yeah, the system isn't perfect. Thank you for the swell advice, we will definitely re-upload it soon
IIRC youtube can edit out stuff like this for you automatically. I had a strike on a video where there was a song playing in the background and youtube was able to mute the audio of the background song without muting my voice over. It did a pretty bad job of it though, but I imagine they could just black-screen the copyright portion of the video.
If you want to have free speech on the internet the only way it to only publish on your own servers. I learned this back in 1995 the hard way. Your property or nothing.
thanks for the tip, makes sense :)
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keep the truth from the Sheeple.