To be clear, the copyright strike is for a small two second animation in the middle of a much larger video.
The correct course of action here is for Mr Beast to apologize to the animation owner (AO) and to reupload the video with the animation removed. Or, to license the animation.
YouTube should then lift demonization.
AO didn't suffer any damage so there's no compensation owed. Legally, AO might be able to chase this but the payout will likely be far less than the court costs.
Mr Beast seems to be a pretty upstanding guy, so I wouldn't be surprised if he licensed the animation for a generous price.
Ultimately, it was the editor who messed up so the Mr Beast team need to review their processes.
How is this different than a big brand stealing a design and putting it on a Tshirt? The product in question is a video and it used art without permission.
This is more equivalent to a transition image in a video featuring the T-shirt at some stage, and part of the transition is copyrighted, not the shirt itself.
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But its not exactly the same, so maybe many other people have altered it.
The correct course of action here is for Mr Beast to apologize to the animation owner (AO) and to reupload the video with the animation removed. Or, to license the animation.
YouTube should then lift demonization.
AO didn't suffer any damage so there's no compensation owed. Legally, AO might be able to chase this but the payout will likely be far less than the court costs.
Mr Beast seems to be a pretty upstanding guy, so I wouldn't be surprised if he licensed the animation for a generous price.
Ultimately, it was the editor who messed up so the Mr Beast team need to review their processes.
How many people would have said the same about Linus Sebastion before Gamers Nexus' Steve Burke pointed out how they treated Billet Labs?
Mr. Beast's actual job is cultivating a public persona. Being good at that doesn't make him a good person.
It turns off monetization for one video. Unless you fuck up 3 times, then maybe it "ruins" your channel.
And if it's a fraudulent strike the person who filed the fraudulent strike gets a strike. Meanwhile you can send as many phony C&Ds as you want.
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