@TeamYouTube My counter notification has been falsely rejected. I have been fighting this for several days now for this video and over a decade with my channel as a whole. It was not until the last 4 years give or take that your system started to fail in the worst way. Not just by bad actors, but by YouTube itself. I have used the EXACT reasoning in my counter notifications in literally ALL of my copyright battles. And not ONCE when a person from YouTube actually looked at my case has it been refused. Below is the reasoning I use, the only thing that changes is the name of the anime in question. This is a fan-made parody of [Anime Name] Abridged and is protected under fair use according to 17 U.S. Code § 107. This video falls under fair use due to it being transformative in nature, it uses no more of the original work than is necessary to convey and exhibit the parody’s intended purpose, and the video does not compete with the original work and could have no negative impact on the original work’s market. This work is a parody that is primarily transformative in nature, as such the original video’s content was used in a manner necessary to convey the intention of the parody. While the copyrighted work is a work of fiction, it is still able to be validly parodied due to the parody being transformative in nature. As such, it is protected under 17 U.S. Code § 107. The content of the video represents valid parody and criticism of the original work and does not damage the nature of the original work. No more of the copyrighted material was used than was necessary to convey the intention and purpose of the parody. As this is a parody of the original copyrighted work, it was necessary to use the included portions of the original work to convey the intention and purpose of the parody. The original edits are substantially transformative and alter the copyrighted material to further the purpose of the parody. This product is made with love for the source material; its intent is to celebrate it and ultimately grow the fan base. Despite that, your copyright team has continued to refuse to forward my counter notification to the claimant. All while YouTube continues to INSIST they do not mediate in copyright disputes. The definition of mediate by the way is, “intervene between people in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation”. You are LITERALLY doing the EXACT DEFINITION OF MEDIATION! It is not for YouTube to decide what is and is not fair use. That is a matter for the courts to decide. You are interfering with the proceedings of a legal battle you have no standing in. Every time a rejection is sent it is literally the same copy and paste reply, tells me or at the very least gives the impression that there isn’t a person actually checking my case, and it is being auto rejected regardless of how much of an injustice it is. If I TRULY do not have the legal rights to dispute this claim and my reasoning is not sufficient then please share with me EXACTLY what is lacking where previously it was not. That clarity will not only help me but the hundreds of other creators who make similar videos. I have attached 4 screenshots of emails from the past where I used the above reasoning and YouTube had no issue in sending it to the claimant. So please explain to me CLEARLY why now it’s all of a sudden not enough. For the record I have dozens if not hundreds of examples of these emails for various videos. #CopyrightAbuse #YouTubeDoMore

@TeamYouTube would you kindly explain to me what EXACTLY we're missing in our counter claim to prove our case?!? Parody falls under fair use, correct?! Because up until this last year we have never had you deny any of our counter claims getting to the claimant before!