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Good news.  The good folks over at Warner Bros. corrected the DMCA action taken against Studio SFO’s videos posted on YouTube.com.
Somehow though the video links don’t play the content now,  so, still looking into that.  However, the nasty red letter infringement notices  are gone!
During all this we all leaned a lot and found lots of links which I will be incorporating into the site somehow.  I have more to say about all this at a later time.

Big corporations are apparently given the ability to search or “filter” the YouTube content to police it.  This is what I gather from my reading. Smaller content owners, three letters for you S.O.L.

It was caused because our videos were caught in a “filter” or some type of keyword search that flagged them.   Then, someone nailed all the videos from that search.  There were 100,000 pulled by Viacom apparently the week before.  In all that only a few were pulled by mistake apparently.

The main point is, it was a mistake. Can you imagine though, how this imperils all content creators  - corporate or not?  What if a big launch had been planned? What about videos embedded in thousands of sites?  I fully realize that YouTube.com is in no way a “public access” channel.  However this little incident shows that the channel itself has  highly placed  and deep pocketed  “editors”.  This is not widely known and should be vigilantly watched.   I still want anyone  with false DMCA claims made against them to contact me at orange @  studiosfo.net

We also learned - it is impossible to contact YouTube.com.
As the video sharing marketplace grows, i doubt that YouTube will be able to remain on top of the heap with zero (user) customer service.

Please send me any related stuff or incidents you know about,

Orange

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