Good example of this: a channel I subscribe to was recently banned from YouTube for no apparent reason, at least according to its proprietor (Jeff Quitney):
This channel was a treasury of carefully-curated public-domain films from the 1930s onward, many of them restored by Quitney. Most of the films were originally for government and military training purposes. If you needed to know how to do a preflight check on a B-29, or if you wanted to catch up on Armed Forces Network newsreels from Korea, this was a good place to look. Neither copyright nor content issues should have been a problem as far as I can imagine, yet one day a couple of weeks ago Google dropped the axe. No appeal, no redress, and no way forward, since the channel wasn't popular enough to generate a big stink on social media.
As far as I can tell, leaving Google in charge of this stuff is like inviting Great White to play at the Library of Alexandria.
Can't say I'm surprised. I've had public domain videos on my channel taken down for copyright issues. All it takes is one jerk to spam takedown requests.
https://twitter.com/quickfoundnet/status/1109314006919970816
This channel was a treasury of carefully-curated public-domain films from the 1930s onward, many of them restored by Quitney. Most of the films were originally for government and military training purposes. If you needed to know how to do a preflight check on a B-29, or if you wanted to catch up on Armed Forces Network newsreels from Korea, this was a good place to look. Neither copyright nor content issues should have been a problem as far as I can imagine, yet one day a couple of weeks ago Google dropped the axe. No appeal, no redress, and no way forward, since the channel wasn't popular enough to generate a big stink on social media.
As far as I can tell, leaving Google in charge of this stuff is like inviting Great White to play at the Library of Alexandria.