Reply To: Greenstuff World Vs Sword N Steele

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So let’s look at the players here:

 

YouTube took the word of a third party that they had Copyright infringement.   This caused harm to the victim which is the creator on their platform.  YouTube didn’t verify if any of it was true and just put a strike against the creator.   This seems a flawed system at best and as many on here agree needs to be improved.

 

GSW directly called for the Copyright strike by YouTube on the creator.   They dont hold a Copyright for the strike to go against, they have a trademark in Spain.   The trademark is for an English word that has been in common usage in the English speaking world where paint is concerned.  They did this to mess with a competitor and only did it a few months ago.  So they acted like assholes to the video creator directly so they could attack a competitor.  Personally I find this pretty foul.

 

Vallejo seems to be stuck with this trademark battle but have decided to play ball and change the branding.  They also apologized for something that they didn’t do and are working to assist in making the errors go away.  Seems a decent response from an openly concerned company.

 

Sword and Steel the creator has ultimately come out ahead but could of had the channel destroyed because or this.  Changed the video to have something up and has also done explanation videos explaining her position.  GSW had the gall to ask her to take down the explanation video.  This is after expressing interest in getting reviews done if she plays ball.

 

So my hot take on this is YouTube and Google suck and are not living up to their obligations under the law in their home country.

GSW are amateurs at best and really duplicitous creeps at worst.  You don’t have to be a multinational company to act out in these ways.

Sword and Steel deserves our support for being a mature adult and being straight forward with her community. I can only hope that this grows he following.

When I first heard of this issue my concern was with YouTube and their actions. After the first explanation video and the communication to the creator by GSW I found myself upset enough to stop buying their products, and yes I have a few.  It took the Beasts of War boys getting the relationship restarted with the new management at GW for me to lift my boycott.  Finally it was nice to see that Vallejo reached out to the creator and even if just a PR move it was the right thing.  This escapade shows that you cant always assign motives to actions but you can look at the actions and assign them merit.