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legitimate question: why not upload it to YouTube?

You can still have the torrent link in the description if people want to download it, you will reach a wider audience and you might actually make some money off it to fund future fan projects.




or, it might be arbitrarily demonetized or deleted, or have a a spurious takedown put on it


unlikely, it's independent work that may contain some copyrighted designs but not anything copied directly of the original film, so the content-id won't detect it. star trek fan films also stay on.

you just can't/shouldn't monetize it because that would motivate the owners of the original film to stop you.

greetings, eMBee.


>unlikely, it's independent work that may contain some copyrighted designs but not anything copied directly of the original film, so the content-id won't detect it.

That is incredibly naive.

Content ID has been picking up things as innocuous as applause at the end of an entirely novel recording as being copyright infringement.


do you have a reference for that? (not that i don't believe you, but i'd like to read that story and share it as a good example how bad this system is)

given the amount of star trek fan-films on youtube (there are thousands, literally) spurious takedowns would be noticeable. so i don't think i am naive here. as long as all your sound and images are original or from a creative commons source a takedown should be unlikely. (that doesn't mean it can't happen though)

greetings, eMBee.


> do you have a reference for that? (not that i don't believe you, but i'd like to read that story and share it as a good example how bad this system is)

Sure: https://twitter.com/mormolyke/status/1011637522324127745

There's also examples like this, about a Star Wars fan film, where Warner claimed that silence infringed on their music copyright! https://www.wired.com/story/the-star-wars-video-that-baffled...


The video was released in 2003. YouTube went live in 2005.




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