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warner music claimed my video for defending their copyright in a lawsuit they lost the copyright for

Adam Neely 2 · 2.7M views · 2020-02-06 · 5:21

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Adam Neely explains that Warner Music claimed his video, which defended their copyright in a lawsuit, over a work whose copyright they had lost. He calls it an ironic and absurd claim, and the claim was later released.

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HN cites it as a prime example of the absurdity of YouTube's automated copyright claim system.

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CalRobert · 2023-05 · Reference

Amusingly, Warner Music themselves can't tell the difference between Dark Horse and Joyful Noise (the song supposedly being infringed upon in Dark House) [VIDEO]

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dredmorbius · 2021-07 · Reference

Simple distribution laws are going to ensure that the bulk of claims go against smaller channels, and that those channels will have little recourse but than public outcry and outrage to seek redress. But larger channels have been hit, notably Adam Neely, at 1.38m subscribers, by Warner Chappel, over his defence of Katy Perry's copyright in a Warner recording, for a segment of the video illustrating the source of the claim against Perry , and not the Perry piece Warner claimed infringement of by Neely. [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO]

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raverbashing · 2020-03 · Reference

Another recent copyright abuse was this one [VIDEO] and this was even manually stricken. Basically this was a critique of aggressive copyright lawsuits that was manually copyright claimed... for the wrong song.

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