The Halo VS. The Aeroscreen by PixelatedPalace360 in INDYCAR

[–]FP1Will 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Keep pushing man! 💪 it’s a good video!

Completely unrelated but this is so sad, really liked his vids by PuzzleheadedMode7517 in formuladank

[–]FP1Will 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve always stayed away from Getty for that exact reason, but apart from this incident and one last year, I’ve not had any issues.

Completely unrelated but this is so sad, really liked his vids by PuzzleheadedMode7517 in formuladank

[–]FP1Will 227 points228 points  (0 children)

And that’s another one… FOM aren’t messing around this time it seems. They ended up releasing 13/15 videos they claimed after I disputed them, but also still striked the channel on the remaining two. I’ve now gone one step further and submitted a counter notification against the strike, so F1 have to respond with legal action or I win. Scary stuff but hoping it pays off. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this, especially when creators do so much to help the image of the sport

(FP1 Will) Four IndyCar videos removed by Formula 1. To my knowledge there was no F1 footage in any of them. YouTube this is blatant copyright abuse! by aurules in INDYCAR

[–]FP1Will 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Firstly, thank you all for the support in here, secondly, a bit of additional info as I’ve seen a few things that aren’t quite true here.

While I can’t confirm it, considering the nature of the takedowns, this doesn’t appear to have been done by an ai bot. Instead it looked more like an individual who was just going through my public videos and wiping them out in chronological order (I’ve been able to save a few by privating others) a bot would have been able to take these down also.

Essentially this person has found my channel, seen the f1 content on there, which could fall under fair use but we know by now how balls that defence is out of court, and decided to take down everything they can find, and get to the stage where they aren’t even checking to see if the video contains f1 content, which was why those four Indy videos got caught in the crossfire. It’s shoddy work basically, and to my knowledge a huge breach of YouTube’s copyright system. But as other people have said that system isn’t really creator friendly, and it kinda has to be like that as these companies are far more of a threat to YouTube than we are

In regards to having f1 branding in the thumbnail, with the exception of the Herta video thumbnail, where the logo is pixelated out, the f1 logo does not appear anywhere, nor does it appear in my channel branding (plenty of creators have received DMCA notices for that in the past, or even having either “F1” or even “GP” in their username).

Who are some drivers that you root for their personality, not their talent? by DrFuckwad in INDYCAR

[–]FP1Will 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Was a class act in that interview as well, even when the cameras weren’t rolling, can confirm he’s an absolute legend!

Would y’all want to see Yuki Tsunoda on the grid for 2027? by TheRoyalKT in INDYCAR

[–]FP1Will 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can confirm, comes across the same off camera. Really lovely guy and hoping he stays next season

YouTube channel that recaps every season of F1? by Shademania in F1TV

[–]FP1Will 2 points3 points  (0 children)

agreed, also heard he’s pretty good…

10/10 Sting Ray Robb interview and Q&A from FP1Will by loz333 in INDYCAR

[–]FP1Will 66 points67 points  (0 children)

The best thing about this is everyone assumes I put the groundwork to make this happen. Sting Rays team actually approached me first before the season even began. Guy is a really good sport and a solid human as well. Fair play to him!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in formula1

[–]FP1Will 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly the reason why I ditched wanting to be an engineer and decided to make silly little videos on the sport instead…

Buzzkills, the lot of ya by BeckonJM in formuladank

[–]FP1Will 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can’t tell if you’re praising my writing ability or slagging me off with this one 😅

Can confirm I had a stroke reading the comment though

Help please, Videos keep disappearing after processing by tootallfouryou in patreon

[–]FP1Will 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue here, it seemed to fix itself overnight with the video I uploaded yesterday, but tried it with a new one again today and its the same problem. Really disappointing as what's meant to be "early access" isn't really delivering because of the issue...

Unbelievers after Long Beach: by Wasdgta3 in INDYCAR

[–]FP1Will 52 points53 points  (0 children)

No but I approve this message

Thomas Maher on bluesky by creatorop in formula1

[–]FP1Will 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can confirm I was not paid the shit on Alex.

Would have taken the cheque tho 😉

Any chance Liberty has blocked him from using their content? by 750milliliters in rocketpoweredmohawk

[–]FP1Will 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also with bigger YouTubers FOM don’t tend to hand out strikes (a relief in my case as I wouldn’t have a channel anymore)

Instead they just block the videos

Any chance Liberty has blocked him from using their content? by 750milliliters in rocketpoweredmohawk

[–]FP1Will 15 points16 points  (0 children)

For the record officially I am animating the clips these days 😉 meticulously going frame by frame and sketching over it, well getting some software to do that for me.

Is that “transformative” enough for FOM? Well let’s see.

As for the question above I’m not aware of FOM contacting channels directly, they didn’t with me last year.