> It was a music artist whom almost no one has ever heard of
This is actually a common thing on youtube. Some people have found it a lucrative business model to just constantly copyright claim everything. Often even repeatedly under different disguises.
They want you to get so fed up (or that it is so much work that it is no longer even possible to respond) to each of these requests as they'll get the ad revenue then.
@agowa338 @deviantollam have a friend who’d upload bird calls and those were getting copyright claimed bc others had copyrighted bird calls on YT. (And of course the “matches” don’t match at all either) 🙄
youtube has both automatic and manual claims. And in either case when you object whoever filed the claim gets your full name and address AND they're the ones that have to decide if they're doubling down or "release" you from the claim. It's not Youtube deciding anything.
The entire system at this point gets mainly abused by bad actors...
Which for a lot of people is the same as their "company" is registered at their home address...
Here in Germany the addresses you provide for these things needs to be "Ladungsfähig". And just a mailbox doesn't fulfill these requirements.
The only alternatives are renting a shared office space with at least a desk for you and someone that answers the phone and handles mail.
Or convincing a lawyer that you can put their address together with your full legal name (which also a lot of people don't want to have known publicly) there so that mail arrives there.
Oh and then there are other registers where depending on which legal form you used for the company the address and date of birth of the CEO need to be listed publicly and so on...
@agowa338 @deviantollam isn’t this pretty common everywhere? That’s why registered agents exist too. (To help obfuscate).
Depends on how much income you make. They're not cheap and if you're just starting out or you're a small fry...