This is kind of an iffy, since FVH was always in a legal gray area. FVH, for those who don't know, was a massive collection of fundamentalist videos that I made almost 3 years ago to archive videos from creationists that were taken off of youtube, as well as a place where commentary was unbiased.
Yesterday, after a month of not checking, I try to go online (since FVH is where I kept playlists of Thomas the Tank Engine for my kid) and I find it terminated, with the DMCA issuer to be the Northwest Creation Network, who owns the rights to the Seattle Creation Conference. Here's the legal gray area and why the termination was unfair: NWCN offers all the SCC videos on their website for free, however, they are embedded terribly and more often than not freeze any browser I use. Since other users had the videos on their channels as well, I felt that it was okay to host them, as long as I didn't take the best quality.
I can't do a counter DMCA since, again, they own the rights. However, I need you guys to write them an email asking why they filed DMCAs against my channel and not others who have them, like:
http://www.youtube.com/user/slaves4christ
http://www.youtube.com/user/BereanBeacon
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMedien
If it was my channel name that upset them, fine, but then the DMCA was unnecessary since they could have just asked because they objected to the channel name.
If it was a legitimate DMCA, then they need to issue takedown notices to those other channels. If they refuse, then it's most likely because those channels are biased towards creationists, where mine was entirely neutral.
If it was a false DMCA, then they might tell me.
I think it would be better if you guys asked as well, getting multiple responses would help a lot, plus I don't know if I could maintain civility. This has really bummed me out.
Furthermore, I plan on restoring it at some point. I need name suggestions, FundieVideoArchive? CreationVideoArchive? VideosForCreation?
Yesterday, after a month of not checking, I try to go online (since FVH is where I kept playlists of Thomas the Tank Engine for my kid) and I find it terminated, with the DMCA issuer to be the Northwest Creation Network, who owns the rights to the Seattle Creation Conference. Here's the legal gray area and why the termination was unfair: NWCN offers all the SCC videos on their website for free, however, they are embedded terribly and more often than not freeze any browser I use. Since other users had the videos on their channels as well, I felt that it was okay to host them, as long as I didn't take the best quality.
I can't do a counter DMCA since, again, they own the rights. However, I need you guys to write them an email asking why they filed DMCAs against my channel and not others who have them, like:
http://www.youtube.com/user/slaves4christ
http://www.youtube.com/user/BereanBeacon
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMedien
If it was my channel name that upset them, fine, but then the DMCA was unnecessary since they could have just asked because they objected to the channel name.
If it was a legitimate DMCA, then they need to issue takedown notices to those other channels. If they refuse, then it's most likely because those channels are biased towards creationists, where mine was entirely neutral.
If it was a false DMCA, then they might tell me.
I think it would be better if you guys asked as well, getting multiple responses would help a lot, plus I don't know if I could maintain civility. This has really bummed me out.
Furthermore, I plan on restoring it at some point. I need name suggestions, FundieVideoArchive? CreationVideoArchive? VideosForCreation?