Akira - Patreon Version (Patreon)

heres how copyright works:

1. there are 2 types of copyright effects, Claims and Strikes. Claims are done automatically by YT and studio bots that auto scans videos. if a video gets claimed, it becomes demonetized and blocked from view for certain countries, we've had it as high as 90% of our audience cannot see a video to as low as 12%. these usually warrants a re-edit or we just leave it alone if its really low %.

2. Strikes are done manually by studios using the tools YT provides. if a channel receives 1 strike, the channel cannot post anything for a week. 2nd strike is 90 days, and 3 strike the channel is full on deleted and the creator is banned forever.

3. Strikes can be appealed by the creator but almost no channel has ever succeeded in an appeal vs a big studio.

4. Japanese studios, especially Ghibli are famous for waiting until a channel has uploaded 3 videos before sending all 3 strikes at once, leaving no time or chance for the creator to appeal at all since the channel will just be immediately deleted.

5. Even if a video is unlisted and not published, it is still scannable by Studios and can be claimed or striked. However, YT is also the only platform that allows free uploads with unlimited size and unlimited traffic. We've looked into other platforms and they all have data restrictions or huge cost after certain amount of updates, Vimeo for example charges 30000 dollars a year if a channel uses more X amount of data and full length reactions are huge in file sizes. It also still does not prevent Studios from taking legal actions on those platforms since those platforms do not provide the tools like YT does. So they may not be able to immediately strike a channel, but they can still resort to the secondary option of law suits .

Note: Claims and strikes can occur any time in a videos life span, there is no time limit. A video can be up for 10 years and if the rules change 10 years later, it will still get hit. Thats why our earliest videos have been deleted by studio requests towards YT, as back then we were not as familiar with how copyright works on YT plus some rules and content guidelines have changed since then and these rules were applied retroactively.