A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him
Who is Tatsumi Maasaki?
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YouTube certainly can, they just don't care enough.
I don't think they can do much at all, actually. They're not allowed much wiggle room when it comes to being DMCA-compliant. They pretty much have to take every takedown request at face value, because DMCA requests are a legal process, and I imagine that any intervention on YouTube's side could be seen as arbitration. I doubt they could do much to interfere with an impersonator, since even a falsely-submitted DMCA complaint is still a legal request that has to be processed accordingly.
The DMCA needs to be gutted.
Nintendo can do something, though. They're the ones being impersonated, so they can actually take the guy to court.
Platforms actually do get more leeway than is usually thought with DMCA takedown requests. If they believe it to be fraudulent, they have every right to disregard it. That's a fact they conveniently try to downplay because they want people to think they have no responsibility for their actions.
If they believe it to be fraudulent, they have every right to disregard it.
Without taking on liability if they are wrong and it was not fraudulent?
Nintendo's lawyers doing something good for once?
Yeah, that's bullshit. You can tell by the fact that they don't take down videos from big corporations when some nobody trolls with a fraudulent DMCA request. They only do it when it's the other way around.
Nintendo's lawyers are too busy doing DMCA claims of videos for 5 seconds worth of sound or video to go after a guy making a false claim in their name
