Someone Stole My Video and Is Taking Credit for it. What do i do?

[AlexUsedSplash]

New update! I check the video today to see if it got taken down and it said Fullscreen took it down!

Good stuff. I'm glad, focusing on creating there only content would have been a good start.

 

[bwochinski]

That's great, one more big reason to join a network!

 

[jake weber]

That's great, one more big reason to join a network!

Well i filed out a copyright form for youtube and then emailed fullscreen, and a few hours after i saw fullscreen took the video down i got an email from youtube saying that it was already gone. So im glad to see youtube tried to do something, but fullscreen beat them to it, but agreed, a huge reason to partner with a network!

 

[bwochinski]

Well i filed out a copyright form for youtube and then emailed fullscreen, and a few hours after i saw fullscreen took the video down i got an email from youtube saying that it was already gone. So im glad to see youtube tried to do something, but fullscreen beat them to it, but agreed, a huge reason to partner with a network!

Well good to hear that youtube actually got back to you. About the only time I've ever heard of that happening. :-P

 

[Itskamren]

i would recommend placing creative commons license on your vids so they cant take it without your permission but if they credit you i honestly just see it as a form of promotion.

 

[jake weber]

i would recommend placing creative commons license on your vids so they cant take it without your permission but if they credit you i honestly just see it as a form of promotion.

Well the thing is this person didn't credit me, he actually did the exact opposite and took all noticeable branding i had in the video out and replaced it... all the way down to changing the title of the video and replying to comments of his "techniques" for making the video.. and he took complete full credit for it.

Ill probably wait to see if this problem occurs more before i try for creative commons. :/

 

[stratafm]

i would recommend placing creative commons license on your vids so they cant take it without your permission but if they credit you i honestly just see it as a form of promotion.

Creative Commons means you CAN use it, provided you abide by the specific license and attribute everything back to the owner of the material being used. You don't even have to contact the owner to use the material unless it specifically says you must in the license (just attribute properly is the norm), so simply licensing something CCBY won't really stop anyone from ganking a video. If you license something CCBY, MORE people could pull it and use it and be totally within bounds of the law. If your goal is to keep people from using it, CCBY isn't the way to go.

If they're going to take it though, they're going to take it.

Taking a whole copyrighted video from someones channel and uploading it to your channel without permission is in no way promotion. It's stealing. Some might argue fair use, but that only applies to a segment of audio or video used in critique, satire, news stories, etc.