The DMCA has a (de facto toothless) perjury clause for knowingly submitting a takedown for content that doesn’t violate the copyright of the claimant. That doesn’t apply to YouTube claims that are handled via their internal tools outside of the DMCA process.
>de facto toothless
On YouTube, it appears to work just fine on other sites like GitHub.
When has a corporation been punished for perjury for false DMCA takedown notices on Github?
If you make a false copyright infringemenet claim, you commit perjury.