Hi - I did file; I'm waiting to hear back. But I doubt there will be any satisfaction from either Google or Viacom.
- Alan, thanks On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Simon Biggs wrote: > The other site says: > > This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy against spam, > scams, and commercially deceptive content. > Sorry about that. > > Clearly somebody thought the content was inappropriate. > > Feel sorry for people in Australia. They are cut off from a huge amount of > content due to routine morally driven filtering. Even in the UK we are cut > off from a lot of material. Much of it is probably illegally produced > (involving doing horrible things to people) but it is still censorship. > > What you are doing is nothing like that. You should be able to file a > counter-notice. > > Best > > Simon > > > On 25/03/2011 23:03, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> This is what's been happening so far - >> >> >> Re: Termination of my YouTube account: >> >> Update: I just filed a claim against them for the Viacom / sutra tape; the >> other tape - I have no idea, since I can't access the site to see what >> they're objecting to. >> >> - Alan >> >> >> Here's the documentation: They haven't replied yet: >> >> >> First, their email: >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: YouTube Support <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:18 PM >> Subject: Re: [#783740898] Account Inquiry >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Hi asondheim, >> >> Thanks for your email. Your "asondheim" account has been suspended due to >> repeated or severe violations of our Terms of Use and claims of copyright >> infringement. Suspended accounts cannot be reinstated. Federal law >> requires that we terminate accounts when there are repeated claims of >> copyright infringement. >> >> Because you have had other videos rejected in the past, we are unable to >> reinstate your account. Users with suspended or terminated accounts are >> prohibited from creating new accounts or accessing YouTube?s community. In >> order for your account to be reinstated, you will need to resolve at least >> one of the following video removals. >> >> The following videos have been removed from your account: >> >> Penalty 1: "evasion of being sutra" formerly at >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP0Np_s3Bj4 Removed due to a copyright >> claim by Viacom International Inc. on 02/03/2007 >> >> Penalty 2: >> "avatar sex hex dance for Anita Berber" formerly at >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e-HxYJm8A8 >> Removed for violating our Terms of Use on 02/14/2011. >> Please see http://www.youtube.com/t/terms and >> http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines >> >> IMPORTANT: If you feel a content owner has misidentified your content as >> infringing, you may be able to resolve one or more of these penalties by >> filing a counter-notification. For more information, please visit our Help >> Center article about counter-notifications at >> http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=59826. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> The YouTube Team >> >> >> Original Message Follows: >> ------------------------ >> From: [email protected] >> Subject: Account Inquiry >> >> no idea why my account was terminated. I haven't added to it for a couple >> of years. there was no nudity on it. i never received notice. most of the >> work was dancework. please inform. >> >> AutoDetectedBrowser: Google Chrome 10 >> AutoDetectedOS: Linux >> IssueType: accountdisabled >> Language: en >> username: asondheim >> >> MY REPLIES (There are four of them): >> >> no idea why my account was terminated. I haven't added to it for a couple >> of years. there was no nudity on it. i never received notice. most of the >> work was dancework. please inform. >> >> I've never had videos rejected in the past as far as I know - never. This >> isn't making sense to me. >> - Alan >> >> In terms of the Anita Berber piece, as far as I can tell, that was put up >> 2007; you changed terms of Use in 2011, but I haven't put up anything in a >> couple of years (check the account) - and as a result, I never saw these >> terms. I'm an artist; I've been extremely careful about what I've put up; >> I think I had something like 70+ videos on YouTube. For you to take them >> all out, because of new regulations (why wasn't I told earlier about >> something that happened four years ago)? seems inherently wrong. As far as >> the Viacom ruling, I have no idea what that's about and am trying to track >> that down. >> >> Please reconsider this; it's not making sense to me. >> >> This is making less and less sense. What on earth is wrong with Evasion of >> Being? Viacom had nothing to do with this; it's a figure from Poser, >> that's all. It came out of my modifications of motion capture equipment at >> the virtual environments lab at West Virginia University. This is >> senseless to me; please explain. What did Viacom say to you? - Thanks, >> Alan (still trying to locate the other video) >> >> Finally, on the Anita Berber video - you say "against spam, spams, and >> commercially deceptive content" - Where on earth is there any of this in >> an artwork? I can't find the original video, but the piece isn't spam, nor >> do I imitate commercial works. >> >> Again, please explain. >> >> ========================================================================= >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > Simon Biggs > [email protected] > http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ > > [email protected] > http://www.elmcip.net/ > http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qy.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
