Thread by @Linkara19

Welp. It finally happened.

After 14 years... I have finally gotten a copyright strike - not a contentID, mind you, full-on STRIKE - for a video about comics.

And yes, it's entirely possible for that to happen - images are copyrighted just like anything else...

...and it was always on the table that a video could get claimed. It's just UNLIKELY to happen because, well, nobody gives a crap about comics - especially old ones.

So now you're asking - who's the lucky one responsible that I pissed off? Marvel? DC? Some indy publisher...

...that put out a black and white comic from the 80s and is now pissed that people remember it existed?

The answer is none of them.

In what should not be a surprise given the last couple years for what happened to @TotallyNotMark and @SuedeBlade... it's a manga.

And not the American publisher of the manga, but a Japanese one.

My Longbox videos for Uzumaki vol. 2, vol. 3, and the two AT4W Live shows featuring chapters from Uzumaki - those four got claimed and removed via a single Copyright Strike.

This is terrifying for a multitude of reasons.

1. They didn't try to ContentID claim or just remove the videos right off the bat or contact me to say "Hey, take these down or else..." They straight-up gave me a STRIKE. Three strikes and my channel is deleted.

2. While my videos are... probably not under fair use anyway given how much I show, I could probably make an argument in court about it. Not a great one, but an argument and therefore most companies won't waste their time on litigation, so they'll just release the claim...

...but that dos not apply to Japan. Japan does not have Fair Use like we do. So while I can and most likely will be appealing, I don't think it's really going to work for a convincing argument.

3. Putting aside the fact that I have OTHER manga reviews now at risk of getting...

...me a strike (I have begun the process of changing ALL of them to blocked in Japan for monetization - not a guarantee, but it could help. I had already done that for HOPR/Sentai and SOME of the manga reviews), I am currently editing a Longbox that is a manga.

And two AT4W...

...episodes featuring manga.

So now I'm fucking terrified of what could happen with those, especially since these Uzumaki videos are YEARS old and this came out of nowhere.

If need be, I will remove the Uzumaki Longbox videos AND any other Junji Ito manga videos entirely if it means getting rid of the strike. I really, really don't want to do that, but I will.

This is my livelihood - it provides for me and my family and that is more important...

...than video continuity or the like.

Sooo, yeah, I've got a lot of work to do on top of the lot of work I already have to do.

It was indeed Shogakukan who did it.

And I should be clear - THERE IS NO CURRENT CALL TO ARMS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONTACT THEM ON MY BEHALF.

Let me see what I can do through legitimate channels first.

https://twitter.com/firingwall/status/1583541025800216576