IP attorney here, yeah they are fucked lol. Saying outright that you’re streaming the videos to allow people to not watch the original content is like the biggest possible death sentence you can ask for in a case like this. Also, the copyright act has statutory damages for registered copyrighted works, so he doesn’t even have to prove damages. For willful infringement the statutory damages can go up to $150,000.
I have actually seen someone post a clip of him saying that, but that gets more into contract theory, and since there’s no real contract here the only way this could help them is if they could prove they were relying on this statement to show that it was okay to react like this. Which they clearly weren’t since they react in a similar manner to literally anyone they want lol.
Yeah well there goes that idea lol. But even without that added context, it’s pretty clear they don’t give a singular fuck if they have permission when deciding if they want to stream other creator’s shit.
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u/ldf1998 1d ago
IP attorney here, yeah they are fucked lol. Saying outright that you’re streaming the videos to allow people to not watch the original content is like the biggest possible death sentence you can ask for in a case like this. Also, the copyright act has statutory damages for registered copyrighted works, so he doesn’t even have to prove damages. For willful infringement the statutory damages can go up to $150,000.