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Kritarth Mittal • Soshals

Founder, Soshals | C... • 4m

When will Indians stop demonising wealth? Anyway, let me educate you. In India, "fair use" means limited use of copyrighted material without the copyright holder's permission, primarily for specific purposes like research, criticism, and reporting. → The more factual or non-fiction the work, the more likely fair use may be accepted. → Uses like criticism, commentary, or teaching are considered fair. → Only if the use negatively impacts the market for the original work or its value, it's less likely to be deemed fair use. Ofcourse a lot of Youtubers are now making good money but how is that a valid argument against them? Anyone who thinks this is fair/legal, needs to realise that if ANI wanted to play fair, they would've asked for content removal. They would've asked for royalties/revenue share. They would've sent a legal notice. But ANI strategically filed 8 strikes and threatened the creator with account deletion, which also happens to be a well practiced play. Legalities aside, there are some things you just don't do out of ethics and mutual respect. ANI just figured that creators will pay the ransom simply out of desparation. Mohak Mangal just didn't play along and hence, the public dialogue now.

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