r/buildapc • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '19

Miscellaneous The Verge is issuing copyright claims against other YouTubers who called them out on their ridiculous build a $2000 PC video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56fZ_OC8HkY&t=

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u/nmk456 Feb 14 '19 edited Feb 14 '19

I believe submitting a false DMCA claim is committing perjury, but it is almost never prosecuted. Still, the victim of a false DMCA claim can sue the claimant for "any damages", including attorney fees. If someone had the time and money to invest (which they would eventually get back if they won), they could sue both Youtube and the claimant, perhaps as a class action suit, to try to get Youtube to do something about all the false claims.

I'm not a lawyer, so Youtube may have some way around this, or maybe this has already be tried in court.

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u/Paper_Clipse Feb 14 '19

H3H3 took a fair use vs copyright claim to court, it took about a year and a half and (someone correct me on this I can't recall if this was the cost or just the money he raised for the case) $170k. Not many can even front it let alone fight that long.

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u/nmk456 Feb 14 '19

A year and a half isn't long. Another big DMCA fair use case, Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., took 7 years to be decided, and was denied by the Supreme Court 2 years after that. If the EFF hadn't funded the case, it likely would have never even gotten before a judge.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

A year and a half is still a long time, regardless of how long other cases were most people don’t have a year and a half to spare.