May 2022 Bluey copyright claim incident

On the 2nd of May 2022. Benjamin Posada recorded an episode of *Bluey* and uploaded to YouTube later to get a copyright claim causing the video to be blocked.

It was the 2nd copyright claim he had experienced in his entire life.

## History

### Before the incident

On the 2nd of May 2022, Benjamin Posada along with his sisters Raquel and Sefora and his friends Laura and Kevin where driving to the house of Luis and Kelly Romero located on the small city of Magnolia in southwestern Montgomery County in Texas. Once arriving at his rural home. He went to the house and ate the Chick-fil-A food that was there and went outside to see the many chickens there are in Luis' home. A clip from the movie *Toy Story* was being shown on the TV that had been accessed via the Disney+ streaming service. when the movie ended, Benjamin Posada and his friends were outside eating the Chick-fil-A food at an outside table as the Sun sat down. Benjamin took a picture of the Sun that showed planet Mercury in it, eventually, Benjamin and his friends went inside the house and played with Luis' daughter Kayla toys from the merchandise of the Australian cartoon series known as *Bluey*.

### Recording of the video

Luis and Kelly were showing them an episode of *Bluey* known as "The Magic Xylophone" while Benjamin was in the bathroom, after Benjamin got out, he grabbed his phone and recorded the episode at 21:06 (9:06 PM) local time, after recording, Benjamin went into the YouTube app and attempted to upload the 3 minute and 44 second long video with the recording of the episode and titled the video "*Watching Bluey for the First Time*". The video would later be uploaded to YouTube succesfully.

### Copyright claim

The very moment after the video was uploaded, the BBC World Service Family got quickly notified that the video was infringing their right to use the episode, the BBCW Family company quickly filed a copyright claim and claimed the material in Benjamin's video and eventually blocked it down so it can no longer be played on YouTube. YouTube immediately gave an email message to Benjamin's Gmail box after the claim. Benjamin didn't realize it at first, but eventually after going into the video tab on his channel page, He realized it "disappeared" and "wasn't there", so he checked the video with the YouTube Studio app only to find out that he got a copyright claim and the video was blocked. He reacted in shock and immediately deleted the video due to his fears that local authorities would come into Luis' house to plead him guilty of the charges associated with video piracy, but that didn't happen and he was praised and calm. He read the Email message YouTube gave to him as it says:

> Hi Juno Teh Planet the Mapping Guy 2007,
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> A copyright owner using Content ID has claimed some material in your video.
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> As a result, your video has been blocked, and can no longer be played on YouTube.
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> This is not a copyright strike. This claim does not affect your account status.
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> * **Video title:** Watching Bluey for the First Time
> * **Copyrighted content:** Bluey S1 E1: The Magic Xylophone
> * **Claimed by:** BBCW Family
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> **Why this can happen**
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> * Your video might contain copyrighted content.
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> **If this copyright claim is valid**
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> * You don’t need to take any action or delete your video.
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> **How to unblock your video**
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> * If something went wrong and the copyright owner or our system made a mistake, we have a dispute process. Please only use it if you’re confident you have the rights to use all the content in your video. Learn more
> * You can also remove the claimed content using Studio's editing tools.
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### Aftermath

Benjamin was very sorry about his wrongdoing on YouTube. He continued to watch other episodes of *Bluey* and promised that he will never record a television episode and upload it to YouTube again. When he was arriving back home, he uploaded a Short on YouTube the very night on the 2nd of May regarding the situation. He later went to his home and went to sleep.

The next day on the 3rd of May, he attempted to apologize to YouTube and BBCW Family via Email a message saying:

> Hello YouTube.
> I'm sorry but it was just a recording of the show I made on my phone at someone’s house and I was not trying to infringe copyright over it and that it was for fair use reasons only. I am very sorry for BBCW Family to give me a claim over this and when I reacted to this, I had to delete the entire video altogether even the non-copyrighted parts of the video so that it is gone forever. I am very sorry for doing this YouTube, hopefully I can do better next time.
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> Benjamin Posada

The Mail Delivery Subsystem responded with:

> The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6596
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> Mail Delivery Subsystem

Some users commented on his short about the incident and they were shocked about it.

He had told this claim to Kevin at the CCSLR church, to his parents at Rockfish Seafood Grill, and to Luis at the church temple in CCSLR.

## Reactions

### Gerryscute GEB

Gerryscute GEB reacted very negatively to the copyright claim and had imposed sanctions against the BBC World Service, BBC Studios, and Ludo Studio for being held responsible for the incident. Gerryscute GEB launched a boycott against the BBC World Service. Gerryscute GEB and its country is yet to stop using BBC News and other BBC products in their property. They had also imposed a sanction agaisnt the Disney+ service and is also yet to stop using Disney+ in their property as well. Gerryscute GEB would then replace former Disney+ with their proposed offbrand service known as "Gerryscute GEB+".

### BBC World Service

BBC World Service Family said that the video was potentially infringing their right to use the copyright content found within Benjamin's video as the episode and the entire *Bluey* is copyright protected. BBC World Service responded negatively and hasn't had any contact with Gerryscute GEB to discuss about the claim.