The First Amendment Shenanigans YouTube channel became the latest channel to fall to YouTube’s copyright strike system in a charge led by clients of that Randall S. “The Unhinged Attorney” Newman, Esq.
Christopher “Denver Metro Audits” Cordova and Zachary “Liberty Troll” Kueker took responsibility for the takedown, as both had issued copyright strikes against the channel resulting in its take down.
Fans of the channel were disappointed by YouTube’s ruling, as it’s sister channel, Law and Shenanigans, was apparently voluntarily taken down around the same time as the main channel was terminated by YouTube.
They had reason to celebrate, however, as soon after the removals, a new “1st Amendment Shenanigans” channel was launched, which currently features four new videos from the same creator.
The loss and regain of the First Amendment Shenanigans channel, even in diminished form, launched a quiet by busy week of copyright infringement battles playing on the fringes of news reports.
Irish Demon made mention of Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s “lawsuit” against him on his Thursday livestream, despite getting the details of the legal action against him wrong. DeCastro has indeed initiated legal action, but against Google, rather than Demon himself.
DeCastro sought and was granted a subpoena against Google for the Irish Demon channel information. It’s not a direct lawsuit against Demon at this time but could be used in a future lawsuit.
Attorney Newman, on behalf of Christopher Cordova, also filed for the same information on the Destination4Truth YouTube channel. If that channel name seems familiar, it is at the heart of the Cordova vs. Doe lawsuit that was filed in June.
That lawsuit is currently experiencing a stay as the Judge is allowing Cordova, through Newman, to take 512(h) action to identify the John Doe defendant. This week’s filing was essentially that action, where a subpoena is being sought for the information.
No action has been taken so far by the court to fulfil the request.
Finally, after receiving strong praise from Newman, Cordova and Kueker for releasing a video that was entirely covered by the “fair use” doctrine, YouTube channel Frauditor Comedy Show reversed course and featured a follow-up video that pushed the envelope of said “fair use” doctrine.
The video featured “story Time with Raggedy Ass Ann” which started with 35 seconds of introduction, followed by a clip from the movie ‘Braveheart’ where Mel Gibson’s character said that he was going to “pick a fight.”
It then went into roughly eight minutes of footage from a recent Cordova livestream where he complained about the city of Denver, Colorado, auctioning off a vehicle he had essentially abandoned.
The video itself seems to be a test to have a copyright strike issued against it, as the eight minutes of Cordova footage features visual inserts insulting Cordova, along with clips from the American version of ‘The Office.’
That video has been seen 447 times, had 107 likes and 88 comments as of press time. It is unclear if the video has had a DMCA copyright takedown filed against it and no requests for subpoenas have been filed for information on the channel as of Friday morning.
Dma first lost he didn’t get the subpoena.
He didn’t?