On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 3:11:49 AM UTC+12, Suzanne Azmayesh wrote: > Youtube can remove an account without prior notice and in its sole > discretion. > > > > > > « YouTube will terminate a user's access to the Service if, under > appropriate circumstances, the user is determined to be a repeat infringer. » > > > > > > « YouTube reserves the right to decide whether Content violates these Terms > of Service for reasons other than copyright infringement, such as, but not > limited to, pornography, obscenity, or excessive length. YouTube may at any > time, without prior notice and in its sole discretion, remove such Content > and/or terminate a user's account for submitting such material in violation > of these Terms of Service. » > > > > > > Good point : if you are the target of a copyright holder's take-down notice, > youtube gives you a chance to defend your right. But the exclusive competence > of the jurisdiction of California is not that pertinent : > > > > > > Counter-Notice. If you believe that your Content that was removed (or to > which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that you have the > authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or > pursuant to the law, to post and use the material in your Content, you may > send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Copyright > Agent: > > > Your physical or electronic signature; > > Identification of the Content that has been removed or to which access has > been disabled and the location at which the Content appeared before it was > removed or disabled; > > > A statement that you have a good faith belief that the Content was removed or > disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the Content; and > > > Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, a statement that > you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in San Francisco, > California, and a statement that you will accept service of process from the > person who provided notification of the alleged infringement. > > > If a counter-notice is received by the Copyright Agent, YouTube may send a > copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that > person that it may replace the removed Content or cease disabling it in 10 > business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court > order against the Content provider, member or user, the removed Content may > be replaced, or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more > after receipt of the counter-notice, at YouTube's sole discretion.
What would the reason for "YouTube may at any time, without prior notice... remove such Content and/or terminate a user's account for submitting such material in violation of these Terms of Service." Should the complainant have the reason given to the alleged perpetrator of rule violation? after all, being barred from your account due to some unknown reason may not deter one from creating another account, does it not? -- [!!] Please see https://edit.tosdr.org -- this is where new contributions should be submitted and discussed tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tosdr/8daf2894-ef45-455e-b425-201f5c8c930c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
