In recent years, copyrights in countries around the world have become increasingly censored. As one of the important objects of the copyright crackdown, the survival situation of video editing works is becoming more and more difficult. Some time ago, YouTube's YouTube channel Totally Not Mark (680,000 subscribers), which was famous for publishing reviews of Japanese animations such as Dragon Ball and One Piece, was suddenly deleted from more than 150 videos, which made the channel's anchors angry at Toei Animation and YouTube.
Irish YouTube anchor Mark Fitzpatrick is a 20-year-old Fan of Japanese animation. In 2009, he launched the channel Totally Not Mark (660,000 subscribers) and posted his own reviews and investigations of the anime. Most of these videos are based on anime produced by Toei such as Dragon Ball and Pirates. According to a video published by Mark on December 7, he received from YouTube an email notifying him that 15 of his videos would be removed for copyright infringement. After 1 hour, the number of deleted videos increased to 28; another night, the number of deleted videos reached 150... In this case, Mark not only lost his own video, but also lost the source of income to raise his family and support the team. Mark believes that the video he released is legitimate, and he is deeply dissatisfied with the attack of Toei when he tries so hard to promote the animation.
In fact, the reason for this situation is that japan and overseas copyright issues are different. Copyrights in many European and American countries follow the principle of "fair use". When certain conditions are met, people do not need permission from the copyright owner to use some of the content protected by copyright. Under such a premise, YouTube anchors in Europe and the United States will naturally hold the attitude of "it is normal for copyright infringement content to appear, and then solve problems". However, this principle does not apply in Japan. Most Japanese companies take copyright for granted and do not allow others to use it at will.
Three days later, Mark released a new video in which he asked a Japanese woman to read aloud a letter he had written to Toei Animation and asked pirate author Eiichiro Oda for help. He wanted to express how much he loved Toei Animation's works, and if it was because of the video copyright problem, he hoped to set it up as a model that could not be seen in Japan and could be watched by other countries. In addition, he also hopes that Eiichiro Oda, the author of the pirates who has the greatest influence on him, can help you to the YouTube anchors and anime fans.
On December 9, PewDiePie, once hailed as the "world's no. 1 YouTube anchor" (with 110 million subscribers), also mentioned the commotion about the animation. He considered Toei Animation to be a "big business that is not interested in the anchors of the animation department", and criticized "Japan is very stupid in terms of copyright". At the same time, he also pointed out that the evaluation of the YouTube copyright management system is not very good.
The incident ended with Mark's abandonment. In the new video released on the 12th, he confessed that the videos that he had devoted himself to making in the past 3 years had been erased, coupled with the despair that the problem could not be solved quickly, which made his spirit reach its limit. He could only renounce the protest. He is very sorry for the audience who expect him to continue to protest. In addition, he will make a video made before the riot as a final contribution during the year. What activities will be carried out next year will be discussed by the team. (2 previous videos related to the incident have been set to be closed)
So do you think it's reasonable for the animated commentary video to be deleted?
Is there a problem with copyright restrictions on Japanese animation?