00:00Recently, I've been putting some of my YouTube videos on Dailymotion, and a few other places
00:08on the internet.
00:09All my YouTube videos here carry the Creative Commons Attribution license, so why not?
00:19As far as YouTube's copyright claim process is concerned, we've looked at that in a previous
00:24video, and I'll be covering actual copyright strikes in an upcoming video.
00:30But what about Dailymotion?
00:33Does it have something similar?
00:36If so, how exactly does it work?
00:39Err, it couldn't be any worse than YouTube's, could it?
00:45Well, here's the bad news.
00:51It's much worse.
00:54For all the criticism of YouTube's copyright claim process, treating individuals as guilty
00:59until proven innocent and so on, it has to be said that the process is at least professional.
01:06Let's have a look at Dailymotion.
01:11To my surprise, shortly after uploading all my YouTube videos to Dailymotion, I received
01:16two copyright claims.
01:18Well, I was in fact expecting claims, but not for the two videos I got them for, which
01:24are both on YouTube with no copyright restrictions.
01:28And another thing I wasn't expecting was to have the videos taken down before even being
01:33able to dispute the claims, or even knowing anything about the claims other than that they
01:39were copyright claims.
01:42So, in terms of being treated guilty until proven innocent, Dailymotion even outdoes YouTube.
01:53This is one of the videos which was removed.
01:56The claim is for four distinct pieces of music, which you can see here.
02:00Though in fact, the video only has one piece of music.
02:04I don't have a single video on Dailymotion, which has four distinct pieces of music.
02:11Now it seems to me there are two possible explanations for this level of dysfunctionality.
02:19Incompetence is one.
02:21The other is that the system is deliberately designed to allow arbitrary removal of content
02:27without giving the content creator any realistic course of appeal.
02:33It's only a suspicion, but I believe Dailymotion is not incompetent.
02:40Bear with me and you'll see why.
02:43You are supposedly able to dispute the video removal by lodging an appeal with this company.
02:50Dailymotion themselves don't want to directly play any part in this.
02:55But look at this.
02:57The form does not accept Yahoo email addresses.
03:02So I mentioned this in my reply to Dailymotion's notification letter.
03:08But just before logging out of my email account, I thought, hold on, what about Gmail?
03:16Yes, it doesn't accept Gmail email addresses either.
03:25So what this bunch of people mean is really, we don't accept any emails and that's the end
03:33of your appeal.
03:35Pretty clever, eh?
03:38If this is Dailymotion's appeals process modus operandi, and it does seem to be, then I would
03:45predict that the company is going to find itself in big trouble in future with the EU's Digital
03:50Services Act.
03:53I'll talk about that new law in detail in a future video.
03:56But suffice to say here that this law is a godsend for content creators because it stipulates
04:03that large internet platforms like YouTube and Facebook cannot arbitrarily remove content
04:09or close accounts without providing a reasonable appeals process.
04:14What we just saw with that email trick is definitely not that.
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