Comment on Bandai Namco Copyright Strikes YouTubers Showing Off Game Mods
HornyOnMain@fedia.io 6 months agoIt's not actually, and there's nothing YouTube could do to stop them unless they wanted to ACTUALLY get DMCA'd. Under Japanese copyright, bandai namco has the complete legal right to request those videos be taken down. This is ridiculous of course, but it's important to remember they didn't break any rules, it's the law that's broken.
Mikufan@ani.social 6 months ago
It would be possible to take it down just in Japan…
Some country could literally make copyright laws on speach, would Google comply and take down all of Youtube?
I absolutely get that the Japanese copyright laws are absolutely idiotic, but why does Google comply so much?..
HornyOnMain@fedia.io 6 months ago
Except no, they couldn't because of the Berne Convention which the US and Japan are both signatories on. Google complies with Japanese copyright in the US because they are required to by law. Again, complaining about the wrong thing is ineffectual, if you want change then you need to be informed enough to understand what needs to be changed in the first place.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
Mikufan@ani.social 6 months ago
Yes i know, Google frequently does such things when Germany lets them take down hatespeach or videos that would violate the German laws regarding nazi symbolism. They also did that when a German copyright agency just claimed everything even if it wasn’t actually theirs or protected under different laws. They just put the “this video is not available in your country because your laws suck” screen on a video claimed. It was however available from everywhere else.