News - 02/11/2017

YouTube's answer to Content Creators Coalition takedown claim

YouTube's answer to Content Creators Coalition takedown claim

The US Content Creators Coalition (c3) complained because YouTube removed one of its spoof ads protesting about the company’s music-licensing - the video was later returned to the service, by the way.

Now the streaming video coloss made a statement telling its side of the story, talking to "Music Ally" via a spokesperson:

We never removed this video or any video on this channel from YouTube. The video in question was briefly prevented from running as an advertisement on our systems, due to a payment issue. That issue has been resolved and the video is again running as an advertisement.

The video in question takes its cues from Apple’s famous "I’m a Mac, I’m a PC" commercials, personifying YouTube and generic audio-streaming services. Watch it below:

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