G’day.
Nine News seemingly stole my Dashcam footage, added a crappy caption, removed the date (so misrepresented it, but it was from years ago), and I have multiple requests for them to remove it.
Just wondering what could be done in this circumstance?
I’ve had a few clips go viral. The first one I got all bitter and twisted and tried getting it taken down, but the best I got was “credit” which ended up being “Source: YouTube”. Morning more.
The second I have permission IF they linked my actual YouTube channel. They gave “Credit: YouTube/Krawler”.
On the third I just gave up and licensed it to one of the companies that always hit you up the second something goes viral. I think Junkin was the first I went with. I got $1500 in royalties for that one, and used it to buy a new dashcam and gave $500 to a breast cancer charity at the request of the other bloke involved who I offered half to.
My wife got one not much later and went with ViralHog. She got a similar amount at the time, though the video still pops up occasionally on Lad Bible type Facebook accounts with credit “via ViralHog” but we haven’t seen a royalty in a long time.
I think the big key is getting it on your own YouTube channel which is already monetized, then they do a copyright claim and monetize it themselves. This prevents it being stripped from Facebook etc where there’s no licensing in place at all.