why do you want to have your work on youtube anyway? i think you host a lot (all of?) your videos yourself anyway, & there are other options such as vimeo. it's probably less time-consuming & energy-diverting to just forget about youtube.
h : ) On 26/03/11 5:15 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > 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 > -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst [email protected] http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
