Douglas MacKrell
The Internet's Foremost Sexpro
Forgive me if this is not the right place for this thread, but I'm in a pickle.
Just today I was contacted through comments on my videos by someone basically using my name. Douglas MackellESP is what he goes by on YT. He wished me luck and - at the moment - has nothing uploaded to his channel... save for my EXACT profile pic which he (or she) copied from my G+ account (though it's easy to find - I try to be universal in my profile pictures).
One of my followers went to my defense, and asked for him to take down the account - but they quickly replied that they were not a "fake account" they were translating my "amazing videos" into Spanish.
So my question to you all is - what do I do with this?
Ultimately they'll be making money off of my content to a different audience. My work is not Creative Commons, and it is monetized - so filing a copyright claim is easy if he uses 100% of my visuals.
But his work may be a way to reach a market that I can't because of a language barrier.
So is this something I should squash? Has this ever happened to anyone else? I've had my videos stolen by bots - but this is new by me.[DOUBLEPOST=1390499756,1390499433][/DOUBLEPOST]Not to mention what this may do to my channel's SEO. Having duplicate videos floating around may split the difference and cost me views.
Just today I was contacted through comments on my videos by someone basically using my name. Douglas MackellESP is what he goes by on YT. He wished me luck and - at the moment - has nothing uploaded to his channel... save for my EXACT profile pic which he (or she) copied from my G+ account (though it's easy to find - I try to be universal in my profile pictures).
One of my followers went to my defense, and asked for him to take down the account - but they quickly replied that they were not a "fake account" they were translating my "amazing videos" into Spanish.
So my question to you all is - what do I do with this?
Ultimately they'll be making money off of my content to a different audience. My work is not Creative Commons, and it is monetized - so filing a copyright claim is easy if he uses 100% of my visuals.
But his work may be a way to reach a market that I can't because of a language barrier.
So is this something I should squash? Has this ever happened to anyone else? I've had my videos stolen by bots - but this is new by me.[DOUBLEPOST=1390499756,1390499433][/DOUBLEPOST]Not to mention what this may do to my channel's SEO. Having duplicate videos floating around may split the difference and cost me views.