Angry Joe Threatens to Take CBS to Court
Throughout the history of YouTube as an online platform, copyright claims and DMCA takedowns have been one of the most controversial and hot button issues for many of the site's biggest creators. Channels like well-known Nintendo music channel GilvaSunner and even official game and company channels like PlayStation have fallen victim to YouTube's automated copyright system with the system being criticized by the YouTube community as faulty and often predatory towards smaller creators. Now, following recent copyright claims on several videos, popular game reviewer Angry Joe has come forward with major criticisms of one of YouTube's copyright offenders.
Fair use laws have long been a concern for many of YouTube's video game and general pop culture content-focused creators with copyright claims causing YouTubers to not only lose ad revenue, but sometimes even see their channels blocked or terminated entirely. Recent developments with Japanese publisher Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions have raised flags for similar issues to soon arrive to YouTube's massive community of anime-based creators. Now, following recent copyright claims from television company CBS, Angry Joe has threatened to take legal action against the media conglomerate.
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In an incensed rant uploaded to Joe's YouTube channel Wednesday, the popular reviewer railed against CBS after the company had issued multiple claims against his initial review and subsequent edits of the fourth episode of the Halo Paramount Plus series. During the video, Angry Joe expressed his frustrations with CBS after editing the review multiple times to conform to CBS's guidelines and warned the company that he would take it to court if the re-upload sees a
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