
I Confronted the People That BLOCKED My Video (Rant)
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Music YouTuber Rick Beato describes confronting the people behind copyright blocks on one of his videos. The video is a rant about how takedowns and demonetization hit music education channels.
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HN cites it as an example of creators' complaints about YouTube copyright blocks on music instruction videos.
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Music instruction channels on YouTube know that this may technically be true but simply does not matter. Rick Beato's channel has several rants about this, and here's one of them: [VIDEO] Apparently you can have YouTube videos blocked or demonetized for even mentioning the name of a song from some very famous artists who have very active legal teams.
Read original comment ↗You basically use one single anecdote while YouTube ... Here is another anedcdote from one of the famous YouTube creators: I Confronted the People That BLOCKED My Video (Rant) [VIDEO] I Testified Before the SENATE On BLOCKERS | Here's What Happened [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Rick Beato is pretty cool. I remember a rant, he did about copyright takedown crap[0] (He's actually done a bunch of them). > Making videos is really hard. This has been my experience, which is why I tend to write longform, instead of producing videos (which I know would be a lot more popular). [0] [VIDEO]
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