

A public web form, which anyone can use to submit a claim.


Lofi Girl is a 24/7 music stream specializing in lo-fi hip-hop beats. "For anyone thinking this situation is absurd, or wrong, or outright illegal, just remember smaller artists have been abused by this system for years now and YouTube has refused to try to fix what's clearly broken," Nathen Paige, the creator of the YouTube music channel SageNine Music, argued in a response video.Lofi Girl streams the chillest beats, but some very unchill YouTube drama exposed an ongoing copyright issue on the platform. The platform's automated copyright filters have consistently caused YouTube creators major headaches, often mistakenly labeling original content as infringing.

"We've resolved the strikes reinstated your vids - it can sometimes take 24 48 hours for everything to be back to normal!"ĭespite the potential happy ending, it appears to be yet another high profile example of YouTube content ID algorithms falsely accusing creators of infringing on copyright. "Confirmed the takedown requests were abusive & terminated the claimants account," YouTube's official Twitter account responded early Monday morning. Fortunately, it sounds like the incident is close to resolution - though for the moment, the iconic stream remains down.
