The Copyrights

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Above is a still from one of The Four videos, which was said to be in the centre of the controversy

Two YouTubers, to pay $6,000 (£4,600), or run the risk of your YouTube channel completely.

Mxr and Potastic Panda are known for the production of videos in which you respond to memes and other online content.

But it turns out that The Four videos that you watched, were bought up by a media company, you are hit with a bill for the infringement of their copyrights.

And, unless you pay, your channel could now be removed because of the nuances of YouTube's copyright system.

A Channel receives A strike against it, if a copyright holder notified formally that YouTube has been a copyright infringement. Receiving three strikes, the results in a YouTube channel as a "terminated".

Mxr Plays, a YouTube channel, often with a response videos " movie, where the people themselves to react to anything from meme.

Mxr and Potastic Panda, the YouTubers, the host of the channel, say, you have not informed got four copyright claims in the same bill of Jukin Media, with Google still. Your common channel has 840,000 subscribers and Mxr has a personal following of More Than two million.

Mxr tweeted his concerns that because of the "three-strikes" rule, if he does not pay until Jukin Media could contact Google with All four claims at once, and you may receive a "take-down" of the channel.

Mxr defendant that only one of the few videos will cost you $3,000 (£2,300), because it contained footage from two of Jukin Media clips.

"Today we have met up with a huge bill of $6,000," said Mxr in a YouTube Video viewed 1. 3 million times. "I think it is because we have paid in The Past , you over $2,000 (1.500 pounds).

"If you don't pay, you will begin striking your channel - you will basically remove our channel, if we pay you. "

He said that the couple a "very thorough search" to see if the content is in your videos already in the possession of a media company, but it is not always easy.

"Sometimes there are videos where it's just a cat," he said, "and there is really nothing to what you are looking for.

"you can browse to the end, through 40 pages with videos and sometimes you miss one of them. If you treat every Youtubers like this, thousands of channels will be deleted. "

Jukin Media, The Company that owns The Four videos, which has responded in a lengthy Social Media post, claiming the YouTuber "money from the videos that do not belong to you".

"we have already mentioned several times," "you can completely All the problems to avoid in terms of copyright law, by simply licensing of the videos on our website.

"In fact, they are among the other peoples' videos, without asking you, then you post it on your channel and money off of them.

"We never want to issue copyright strikes we have a duty to do, in order to protect The Copyrights of the authors who have signed With Us . "the YouTubers have?

Leonard J. French is a copyright lawyer based in the United States , who is also a YouTuber with More Than 100,000 subscribers.

He told the BBC that the question raised by online commentators, whether the YouTubers should have to pay - or if your Video falls under the legal principle known as "fair use".

"It is very possible that Mxr doesn't fair use," he said. "But I and my fellow lawyers do not even know how a judge or jury would find, if this went to a trial, because fair use is such an in-depth analysis.

"It is right on The Line . This channel will make enough additional comment or criticism to overcome the hurdles to fair use, or you only have the re-release of the original material without the addition of enough transformational content on a new material?

"that's the difference between no damage and massive damage In Between with nothing. "

He said that according to U.S. copyright law (notably 17 U. S. C. section 106-7), there are four points that need to be addressed in order to determine whether something qualifies as "fair use" or not.

How To tell if your Video could qualify as fair use according to Leonard J. French

Leonard, that while $6,000 may seem like a lot, it could be a lot more, when the theme is at the latest before the court.

"to work As a copyright lawyer in this area," he said, "I can say, this is a normal demand and reasonable demand can even.

"But there are different methods for the calculation of damages in the United States . If Jukin Media has registered the copyright before this claim, you could damage up to 150,000 US dollars (£115,000) in the yard.

"If you have not yet registered the copyright, you would only be able to claim the actual damage, the use of the original fee for the Videos ($49/£37) plus attorney's fees.

"Legally, it is not a Problem to go to a demand for $1,500, but it seems morally outrageous, after A Channel like this for so much money per Video . "

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Source of news: bbc.com