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.
>>>
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