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Bandai Namco Copyright Strikes YouTubers Showing Off Game Mods (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I really cannot believe it’s 2024 and there are still video game publishers out there that want to go to war on their own modding communities. I expect this sort of thing from the Nintendos o…

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is clearly abuse and they should be banned from DMCA strikes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not actually, and there's nothing YouTube could do to stop them unless they wanted to ACTUALLY get DMCA'd. Under Japanese copyright, bandai namco has the complete legal right to request those videos be taken down. This is ridiculous of course, but it's important to remember they didn't break any rules, it's the law that's broken.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It would be possible to take it down just in Japan...

Some country could literally make copyright laws on speach, would Google comply and take down all of Youtube?

I absolutely get that the Japanese copyright laws are absolutely idiotic, but why does Google comply so much?...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

The below is wrong, check the edit

Except no, they couldn't because of the Berne Convention which the US and Japan are both signatories on. Google complies with Japanese copyright in the US because they are required to by law. Again, complaining about the wrong thing is ineffectual, if you want change then you need to be informed enough to understand what needs to be changed in the first place.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

It also enforces a requirement that countries recognize rights held by the citizens of all other parties to the convention

Edit: Actually this is an interesting nuance I wasn't aware of, so I was wrong. Sorry! I need to take my own advice more often. But there's an interesting distribution to learn about here.

The copyright itself is applicable in US jurisdiction regardless of what country it came from, but then the claim itself is enforced with the US's copyright laws(and there are some weird gray areas about public domain timelines expiring at different times). So Google certainly could ignore it outside of Japan.