Philip De Franco Investigates Alinity and PewDiePie Copyright Scandal Calling it \u201cA disgusting move\u201d Creator of YouTube news channel Philip De Franco has completed his own investigation into the recent copyright scandal involving Twitch streamer Alinity and YouTuber PewDiePie, concluding that he is \u201cincredibly concerned.\u201d If unaware, recently popular Twitch streamer Alinity said while broadcasting that she was going to \u201ccopy strike\u201d a PewDiePie video, after he included a clip from her stream and called her a \u201cthot\u201d. The clip quickly sparked controversy, as PewDiePie\u2019s video was clearly fair use, and Alinity explained that she frequently made copyright claims against YouTube videos about her because \u201cI get money out of that\u201d. Essentially, Alinity, through an agency called CollabDRM, was making copyright claims on any video which included content from her stream, in order to receive the revenue from that video. This was proven when a small channel called \u201cL of The Day\u201d was hit with a copyright claim on a video where the creator simply gave commentary about the situation, and clearly was fair use. Hearing of the situation, De Franco said he was \u201cincredibly concerned\u201d, and has gone on to do his own investigation, as a prominent figure in the YouTube world. \u201cCopyright claiming is an important tool, but we need to make sure that it is not abused. If someone takes a clip from a Ninja Twitch stream, or a chunk from the H3 podcast, and just uploads it. It\u2019s not news, it\u2019s not commentary, it is not transformative. [\u2026] The creators of those videos should get paid. But when copyright claims become a weapon \u2013 when a person or a company go: \u2018I don\u2019t like what you\u2019re saying, I\u2019m going to take money out of your pocket\u2019 \u2013 that\u2019s a huge fucking problem. In my eyes, it is a blanket attack on speech and fair use. It\u2019s a disgusting move.\u201d De Franco also shows a screenshot of correspondence he had with PewDiePie, confirming that Alinity did indeed make a claim against his video as she threatened. He also reached out to someone at CollabDRM, who claimed that they only aim to \u201cprotect the rights\u201d of content creators, and that their job is to \u201cplace claims if our client\u2019s videos are used without a license on YouTube.\u201d You can watch De Franco\u2019s full video on the situation below, where he gives details of his investigation and his causes for concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Philip De Franco Investigates Alinity and PewDiePie Copyright Scandal Calling it \u201cA disgusting move\u201d Creator of YouTube news channel Philip De Franco has completed his own investigation into the recent copyright scandal involving Twitch streamer Alinity and YouTuber PewDiePie, concluding that he is \u201cincredibly concerned.\u201d If unaware, recently popular Twitch streamer Alinity said while broadcasting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}