On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 14:32:27 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'After three attempts to restore the video and have the copyright strike removed, YouTube responded once again. The message contained yet more disappointment for Bruno.'
Something similar happened to the Blender Foundation itself a few years ago, when Sony Pictures managed to get “Sintel” taken down from YouTube <https://www.techdirt.com/2014/04/07/sony-youtube-take-down-sintel-blenders-open-source-creative-commons-crowdfunded-masterpiece/>. But the outfit behind the Blender 3D software being rather well-known, the takedown didn’t last very long: it generated sufficient outrage to cause a u-turn after just a few days. It’s yet another case of “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”. Ultimately, there is no right of appeal against the decisions, arbitrary and capricious as they are, of these amoral, faceless, soulless social networks, except the appeal to public opinion. If you have enough of a following to whip up sufficient noise on that score, then you have a chance of getting such verdicts reversed. Otherwise, forget it.