AnonymousMike

The first "Patrick I Swear to God" video remained up since early May (4 months), until it had a frivolous claim filed against it for minor background music in a brief segment of the video. For revenue purposes, I had to reupload the video with the claimed portion fixed.

But as you may have guessed from that reupload no longer being publicly available, they filed yet another manual claim for background music, this one being even more frivolous. The claimed music is barely audible. I figured I could get away with a tiny amount of Spongebob production music (given that this is a Spongebob parody, naturally) but apparently simply removing the music from the original claimed portion doesn't prevent the holders from later filing another claim for a different portion.

So the video is gone (unlisted). Those with it in your watch history may eventually see that all of the audio from the claimed portions are gone, in an attempt to "fix" the claim and preserve the remaining revenue for myself.

There is currently another "Patrick I Swear to God". It is unlisted while under review for monetization (which inexplicably took several days for the previous two versions, and now yet again). I meticulously edited the audio in the spectrogram so as to abolish any trace of music I could find. At this point it is so incredibly faint that now I have the excuse that it's practically not even there. If this video gets claimed - and I will let everybody know if it does - it will be a severe indictment on the exploitability of Copyright law and on YouTube's spinelessness that they would acquiesce to it. Nobody will be safe.

But what is possibly even more egregious than the frivolity of the holders is the fact that YouTube, for whatever reason that nobody is able to explain, prevents use of their "erase song without erasing original audio" feature for manually claimed audio, which would have solved all of this had I even access to it from the start.

In the event the newest version gets claimed, there will really be nothing more I can do. I neither want to irritate my audience with a fourth upload of the same video, nor (out of principle) give legitimacy to the potential claim by doing even more audio fixes. I may simply reinstate the original upload, which is currently private, with shared revenue.

Mike

7 months ago | [YT] | 1,096



@ItsSharkBait 

YouTube's copyright claim system is atrocious. Copyright holders pretty much get away with anything and there's essentially no limits. It's a huge shame and just hurts all content creators as a whole. Sorry to hear you're dealing with this, hopefully ONE day they can fix this problem.

7 months ago | 172

@SodaPop7720

remember, if it gets taken down, its canon

7 months ago | 144

@tedtheodore5715

Welcome to youtube, where doxxers and pdfiles are protected but SpongeBob memes are struck down ▶️

7 months ago | 34

@DIFI177

Patrick i swear to god❎️ Youtube i swear to god✅️

7 months ago | 43

@skeleton819

by their logic all the internet should be shutdown due to copyright violation

7 months ago | 43

@TubeLoobMouse

As long as we can still view “SpongeBob finally snaps”…

7 months ago | 9

@cybermel0nmusic71

Dang dude, I’m sorry to hear that, but hey, YouTube can’t stop what’s already been started

7 months ago | 22

@Tommy55_official

Businessman will screw over anyone,no matter what

7 months ago | 11

@gamer_timeyt1883

Exodus 20:7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

5 months ago | 0

@thomthegb

Youtube is really shitty sometimes, your animations rock and i think its unfair for them to be taken down over a very minor copyright claim each time

7 months ago | 5

@tangerinecowboy

YouTube after taking down high quality animation for a piece of a music track while simultaneously allowing basically NSFW on their platform

7 months ago | 4

@willcth3b3st

Me wondering if youtube copy right is worse or if roblox moderation is worse, both are very bad currently

7 months ago | 4

@PlayStationOneDude

Also heard that these two guys, LatinAutoPerf and Warner Chappell Music have copyright claimed an ai version of JShlatt singing Aria Math and claimed that it was the Protostar Remix. Be on the lookout!

2 months ago | 0

@GotovUmeret

If it gets reclaimed again maybe you could try to make a fuss about it on Twitter

7 months ago | 5

@Theentnikan

"Susan wojickiski was actually a good ceo." Said nobody ever

7 months ago | 6

@clutteryguy9747

Dang that sucks :(

7 months ago | 3

@jaywashere14

Damn YouTube hates me :( I’m sorry Mike, I’m surprised that YouTube didn’t take the original video down because I used the music while making the audio you animated.

7 months ago | 4

@bethanythemulti-fandommodd1218

I feel like i said this before but i think if it does get taken down again, you make a community post or on a video on your channel that links the original video on a Google Drive so that people can still access the original video without it getting deleted

6 months ago | 1

@PatrickStar-I

There was a 40 foot tall pineapple lying around

7 months ago | 4

@HelloIAmAnExist

Add it to the ever expanding list of shitty things about YouTube

7 months ago | 3