YouTube copyright strike

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YouTube copyright strike is a copyright infringement practice used by YouTube for the purpose of managing copyright infringement and complying with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is the basis for YouTube's copyright structuring system design. In order for YouTube to maintain DMCA secure port safeguards, YouTube must respond to claims of copyright infringement with notice and removal process. YouTube's own practice is to issue a "YouTube copyright strike" to users accused of copyright infringement. When a YouTube user has 3 strikes, YouTube cancels all of the user's YouTube account, removes all of their videos, and refuses to allow the user to have another YouTube account.

Some users have expressed concern that the strike process is unfair to users. The complaint is that the system assumes a YouTube user error and takes the side of the copyright holder even when no violations occur.

YouTube and Nintendo were criticized by Cory Doctorow, a writer for the Boing Boing blog, as they reportedly treated the video game reviewers unfairly by threatening them with strikes.

Copyright strikes have also been issued against the creators themselves, as happened when the Miracle of Sound channel was struck with multiple copyright strikes as a result of an automatic strike by their own music distributor.