your emails are copyright, your facebook private messages are copyright, just as your letters are copyright. Nobody can publish your copyright material without your permission. Not rocket science.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/libel_per_se Not all States recongnize libel per se, but Washington DC does.

Libel Per Se puts the burden on the speaker.

Defamation Per Se In the District of Columbia, any written or printed statement that falsely accuses someone of committing a crime constitutes defamation per se. If a statement is defamation per se, the court will assume harm to the plaintiff's reputation, without further need to prove that harm.

Do you know what libel per se is? I didn't make that up, it's a legal term. Libel per se means your second and third sentences doesn't apply.

The reason I'm not directly accuse people is I have no idea what was in those videos. So I gave a neutral and accurate description of libel per se.

His Facebook profile is back up though?

Maybe he could issue another death threat to remove the death threat.

Shouldnt have fucked so many kids Alefantis. Now you are gonna die.

The (V) Ryan? That was threatened with death to himself and family not only made a detailed YouTube video of the threats, the written texts, he showed the URL of Alefantis, the phone number from the call that matched the property records of CPP from 2007. He showed that "Alefantis" had sent him pictures of Ryan's family members via text message as veiled threat. We could go on. The copyright issue is ridiculous. To even place it out there as such concludes it is in Fact Alefantis who made the threat. Ryan also stated Alefantis accidentally face timed him on the second day and it was clearly J.A.. He filed a police report was interviewed by the FBI. We know he is/was connected to CIA. He can't be that stupid but maybe so now days. These guys have been above the law for so long they are sloppy and citizens & journalists have learned to archive info. Place it on thumb drives. Place thumb drives in the hands or care of others in case something happens.

To answer the question for the lazy ones; no, not just anybody can submit a claim. You must submit paperwork to YT first proving you have the legal right to make the claim.

https://www.youtube.com/copyright_complaint_form

Does James A really have a copyright claim just because his image is shown? Wouldn't he only have a claim if it was his video? I'm not actually sure how that works but someone else may have more info.

Not normal. Not normal at all.

Hate to be the Devil's Advocate, but couldn't anyone have filed a copyright claim to get it taken down and have submitted their name as James A. Alefantis?

Can someone make a video of going to this video through the video by Electric Thoughts to show how the copyright claim appears, and upload it to YouTube?

So in essence - by laying claim to it, James is admitting he made the death threats?

guilty much?

I wonder if it's a different legal issue than copyright, but there system has hard coded a message with only the name field available to edit.

Calling someone a child rapist is libel per se which means he only has to show he has never been convicted of that to prove libel. My theory is all this "censorship" is companies taken down unprotected speech for which they could be liable. Libel is not free speech.

YouTube takes any video down when someone puts a copyright flag on it then it's up to the individual to submit proof which is a drawn out process :/

Pretty clear that he made the threats if he is claiming infringement!

I see someone is downvoting all new posts here existing for just 30 seconds, how can you read so fast to downvote?

Oh ok, for me it doesn't, but I don't get why James Alefantis made a copyright claim. There isn't really anything in it infringing copyright as far as I see.