Amber Neely
An Apple archivist has had his YouTube account disabled after Apple filed multiple takedown requests against his account.
Brendan Shanks, owner of the Apple WWDC Videos channel on YouTube, tweeted that Apple had filed a series of copyright removal requests against his channel.
Congratulations Apple, you took down my YouTube channel containing hundreds of20-year old WWDC videos. Wouldn't want anyone learning about Mac OS X, Darwin, Aqua, or WebObjects @tim_cook @pschiller @gruber @jsnell @ismh @mjtsai @reneritchie @reckless pic.twitter.com/w2UgVqOubF
— Brendan Shanks (@realmrpippy) November 4, 2022
The videos in question were decades-old recordings of WWDC events.
Due to the multiple violations, not only were the videos removed, but Shanks' YouTube channel has been disabled.
In addition to losing the archive, Shanks also lost his personal YouTube account, as well as his YouTube TV, which he'd just paid for.
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35 Comments
The bottom line is that the videos were the intellectual property of Apple. As the copyright owner, Apple has the right to decide where, and if, the videos will be available.
Amazing punishment to a fan site though.
It is not in Apple's best interest to have the videos available online. Apple wants to people to use the latest hardware and software. It does not help Apple to make it easy for people to make old computers more useful.
Copyright infringement has gotten so rampant, when a proper claim is enforced, people react as if that's controversial.