Formula 1 issues copyright takedown to video on their own YouTube channel

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36 points·obi1kenobi··11 comments

Attorney featherbedding. One gets paid to issue, one gets paid to respond. Did I mention lawyers aren’t my favorite group of people? LPL is a notable exception.

upvote for LPL.

Pardon my ignorance, but what's LPL?

i'm guessing Lock Picking Lawyer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ

Lock picking lawyer. A seemingly moral attorney famous on youtube.

There are several non official Formula 1 channels [1]. The twitter user is probably just confusing them.

[1] example: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCrCmp_N0P0rVPKxUAiPImQ/vid...

OP and Twitter poster here. You can see in the screenshot that the channel name "FORMULA 1" and the channel photo match the official Formula 1 channel's name and photo [1].

Additionally, the YouTube search algorithm heavily prioritizes the official F1 channel since it's a verified channel. Surprisingly, the Android YouTube app does not seem to show the checkmark for verified channels, otherwise that would have been one more way to confirm my finding. Unfortunately, I was not able to find the same video when I retried the search from a non-mobile device.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/Formula1

Yeah, race highlights are never 23 mins long so that was probably a screw up. And maybe a copyright takedown allows them to have all other such 23 min reuploaded videos automatically removed?

Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing?

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