So I'd like to start by saying that I agree with the notion that Youtube's claims and strikes regulations need an overhaul and the way things are going at the moment leads to a lot of inconsequential false claims for the ones claiming videos, but here's some food for thought.
Youtube, for the past few years,
has not been profitable. To the point where I've heard many say that if Google hadn't bought it, Youtube would have most likely had fallen. That's probably a large hyperbole since it seems to be mostly breaking even as of last year, but as a whole, Google believes Youtube is a necessity for the internet as it is the largest way to share videos. I mean, can you imagine a world without Youtube? There was an article that backed this statement up but I can't find it anywhere on the internet for the life of me and using various search engines keeps giving me random Youtube videos (lol). So we have a large company that has taken in a smaller company because it believes it to be required even though it isn't earning profits. If this is the case, then Youtube most likely doesn't have the funds needed to operate to its full potential and requires heavily on automated responses. This bites hard in many areas including responding to copyright claims and is thus easily abusable for one side and aggravating for the other side. For a large company like Google/Youtube, this is
not okay. It's not okay for creators to spend hours or days on a video for it to be claimed as copyright, especially if they monetized those videos since the company can claim a video even if they drop the claim down the line. The biggest reason for this is the time the video is hit in its lifetime: If they're claimed shortly after the video goes up, this can be a huge determent to the uploader as they lose out on the money they would have earned during the first few days the video goes up
which is also when the video gets the most views. The money the video earns during that time is also kept by the company that claims the video.
As a whole, Google/Youtube needs to step their game up in order to prevent this kind of thing to be considered an 'everyday event,' but there isn't too much they can do to boaster their profits. They've tried in the past to get through to people with
useless gimmicks and even attempted to get their
own paid services, which was met with negative criticism all around due to the
harsh rule set, as well the fact that most of the 'services' are not very appealing to most users. It's really falling flat all around and hopefully this latest outcry will get Google's attention enough to do something about it, at least for the sake of the content creators.
