YouTuber charged $3,000 for using memes claims he\u2019s being \u201cextorted\u201d Popular YouTuber MxR has claimed that a licensing company has been \u201cextorting\u201d his channel over the use of memes after getting hit with a major bill. MxR, who has close to three million subscribers across their three YouTube channels, creates a variety of content that includes reaction videos, gameplay, and even game mod reviews. With their reaction videos, the YouTuber typically picks out memes from social media \u2013 with some being other YouTube uploads and viral clips. Due to this, he has revealed on Twitter that Jukin Media, an entertainment licensing company, has struck him with another bill for around $3,000 and that he thinks he\u2019ll have to pay otherwise his channel could be in danger of being struck down. Here are the charges Jukin media gave me. $3000 for a single meme bc it contained footage from two of their clips. If I don’t pay this, they’ll strike and take down my channel. pic.twitter.com\/61h8FrJJxf \u2014 MxR (@mmoxreview) January 10, 2020 Prior to his tweets, the YouTuber and his co-host Jeanie, uploaded a video explaining their current situation, claiming that the company in question has been trying to \u201cextort\u201d them purely because they\u2019ve paid their bill before. The content creators explained that the copyright system has been changed from license owners claiming a video and then receiving revenue to them issuing strikes and their own bills. As they\u2019ve run into issues with Jukin previously, the pair noted that they\u2019d removed clips from their videos and paid around $2,000 to the company \u2013 which they believe shows that they\u2019re willing to pay and, therefore, they\u2019ve been hit with larger sums. \u201cI feel like if they treated every YouTuber like this, tonnes of channels would be deleted right now,\u201d he explained. \u201cIf you go on any YouTube channel, chances are like some f**king video on the internet played at some point, but they\u2019re not going after them and taking them down. They\u2019re going after us because I think we gave them money.\u201d Jukin jumped into the comments section to make themselves heard, and also posted a screenshot of their comment on Twitter \u2013 explaining that their licensing is no different to people like Shutterstock and issues can be avoided by paying a membership fee. \u201cYou\u2019re making money off of videos that don\u2019t belong to you \u2014 our only goal here is to ensure that the rightful owners of the videos are compensated,\u201d they tweeted. \u201cWe\u2019re happy to talk and try to find a resolution that works for everyone.\u201d Whether or not the two sides will be able to come to a resolution on the matter remains to be seen but it appears that there are certainly avenues for them to go down. If not, the YouTubers revealed that they may have to make a change to their content, scrapping the use of some videos in their reactions in order to keep their channel going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber charged $3,000 for using memes claims he\u2019s being \u201cextorted\u201d Popular YouTuber MxR has claimed that a licensing company has been \u201cextorting\u201d his channel over the use of memes after getting hit with a major bill. MxR, who has close to three million subscribers across their three YouTube channels, creates a variety of content that […]<\/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-65823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65823","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=65823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}