Why is Ray William Johnson not sued for copyright infringement?

He gets away with a lot for sure. He has had more than 3 copyright strikes on his channel. He has even admitted it in interviews. I guess money talks when getting issues resolved with networks and YT.
 
Tarmack said:
It is debatable whether or not he would win a fair use lawsuit. Nothing that RWJ does with =3 would constitute a review, rather what he does is say hey watch this whole video because it's funny. Playing an entire piece of content and just breaking out funny lines during is what Mystery Science Theater did, and while there is a potential arguement for parody under fair use, it is still a stretch because he's not altering the content in any way. This is why Rifftrax exists, so people can do their movie commentary, distribute and monetize but it's designed to be overlaid on top of the movie that the end user already has which means the "Riffer" doesn't need to license anything since their track is only vocal audio created entirely by them.

It's far more likely that he gets in contact with the original uploader and asks permission to use the content, or relies on the content owners being so far below YouTube's notice with ContentID.
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He most likely does ask for permission to use the video. He does promote the videos he reviews and tells people to go watch them (or at least did) plus I think (been a few years since I watched him) he would ask people to SEND the videos to him. He also brings a lot of views for Youtube, which just makes them more money so I doubt they would ever do anything to his channel.
 
ShiftHappens said:
He most likely does ask for permission to use the video. He does promote the videos he reviews and tells people to go watch them (or at least did) plus I think (been a few years since I watched him) he would ask people to SEND the videos to him. He also brings a lot of views for Youtube, which just makes them more money so I doubt they would ever do anything to his channel.
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None of that makes it fair use.
 
a good question that i've always wondered myself, i believe we have a few answers that might be right such as money talks :\
 
mcfluffers said:
people like the free publicity. The guy reviews your video and sends you 100k+ views for free. Why would you go after him with copyright and just have that free publicity taken down and then not get anything out of it?
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He usually reviews viral videos so it's not really needed to add those 100k views but yeah , it's a free publicity .
 
ShiftHappens said:
Because it's under fair-use.
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That's horseshit. The real answer is because he makes Google MONEY. And you may think I'm trying to sound sarcastic or whatever, but I'm dead serious. Do you NOT remember the guy who called RWJ out for using his clips on his "Equals 3 aka America's Unfunniest Bob Saget Ripoff" b******t?
 
A few of the original uploaders of the videos Ray steals have said he didn't have permission. He's a goofy a** thief.
 
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