YouTuber Sued Over Stanley Kubrick Movies Analysis

I wish I could see the original video. I watched the new one where he's edited out the infringing content. It was very good. However, if he was using the infringing music in the same way that he was using music in the new one I can see why he's facing an issue. All of the music in the video I watched was used as a music bed. It wasn't subject to his analysis or criticism except for a brief mention at the end of the video. On that note, I hope he's received permission to use the remaining music. Many people don't realize that the performance and recording of a classical music score may be copyrighted even though the score itself could be in the public domain.

Is it just me or has there been a lot of these aggressive takedowns lately?

Nostalgia Critic, Louder with Crowder, now Criswell... I'm sure I'm missing more too.

In the old days, if you used torrents to distribute p2p you'd get sued. If you used someone else's website to distribute, the website would get sued.

Now, people use YouTube to distribute but people get sued, not YouTube. Why is this? Morally, and for a purpose of balancing powers, it should be the big guy that gets sued, not the individuals.

I think that's a totally fair reason to ask for a takedown. Like they said, the music wasn't the subject of the analysis so I'd think it isn't fair use.

However I'd be interested to know if they contacted Lewis directly with good intentions before leaping to litigation.