Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1103251907480.4336@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>,
Cyberculture <cyberculture@zacha.org>
Subject: My YouTube termination - bloody story so far:
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:09:14 -0400 (EDT)
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. By the way the Viacom claim goes to Federal District Court - with nothing better to do they get to watch a thoroughly innocuous video from me. I'm infuriated and depressed - there's no real recourse in the US re: anything to do with corporations. - Alan Here's the documentation: They haven't replied yet: First, their email: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: YouTube Support <support@youtube.com> Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [#783740898] Account Inquiry To: sondheim@gmail.com 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: sondheim@gmail.com 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. =========================================================================