YouTube Policy on impersonation 2018

Legal awareness 2018

YouTube Policy on impersonation

What is Impersonation?

What is impersonation on YouTube?

How impersonation happen on YouTube?

Report Impersonation on YouTube

How to Report Impersonation on YouTube?

Impersonation of a channel

What to do if someone impersonate your channel?

How to resolve an impersonation of your channel?

Impersonation of an individual

What to do if someone impersonate your name?

What to do if someone impersonate your image?

What to do if someone impersonate your personal information?

How to resolve an impersonation of your name?

How to resolve an impersonation of your image?

How to resolve an impersonation of your personal information?

What doesn’t count as impersonation?

Impersonation of a business:

What is impersonation of a business?

How to resolve any abuse related to your business on YouTube?

What to do if someone abuse your business on YouTube?

What is Impersonation?

An act of pretending to be another person for the purpose of
entertainment or fraud.

What is impersonation on YouTube?

Activities such as copying a user's channel layout, using a
similar username, or posing as another person in comments, emails, or videos
may be considered harassment.

How impersonation happen on YouTube?

Impersonation can happen on YouTube in two ways:
impersonation of a channel or an individual.

Impersonation of a channel:

A user copies a channel’s profile, background, or text, and
writes comments to make it look like somebody else’s channel posted the
comments.

What to do if someone impersonate your channel?

How to resolve an impersonation of your channel?

You need to use YouTube reporting tool: (Safety and Abuse
Reporting)

https://www.youtube.com/reportabuse

Impersonation of an individual

A user creates a channel or video using another individual's
real name, image, or other personal information to deceive people into thinking
they are someone else on YouTube.

What to do if someone impersonate your name?

What to do if someone impersonate your image?

What to do if someone impersonate your personal information?

How to resolve an impersonation of your name?

How to resolve an impersonation of your image?

How to resolve an impersonation of your personal information?

You need to report it using YouTube webform.: (Report
Impersonation on YouTube)

https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/impersonation

What doesn’t count as impersonation?

Impersonation of a business:

Impersonation does not include channels or videos pretending
to represent a business.

In this case you may want to consider submitting a legal
complaint via YouTube legal reporting forms. (Removing Content from YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/reportingtool/legal?visit_id=636707850630761437-2812476720&rd=1

Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat

Legal awareness: YouTube Subscriber counts Rules 2018

Legal awareness 2018YouTube tips and adviceYouTube Subscriber counts rules

 Subscriber counts

The number of users subscribed to your YouTube channel is a
metric that reflects how many people are following your channel. Subscriber
numbers displayed in the following places update in real time:

1. Your channel page

2. Account switcher

3. Video watch page

4. Third-party sites and

5. applications using the YouTube Data API:

Add YouTube features to your
application, including the ability to upload videos, create and manage
playlists, and more.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/

Spam subscribers

Removing spammy subscribers

Gaining subscribers through artificial means

Coordinated exchanges subscribers

Sub4sub exchange

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6051134?hl=en&ref_topic=2803176

Changes to subscriber count

Subscriber count changing or dropping

Reasons of changing or dropping of your subscriber counts:

- Viewers are subscribing and unsubscribing to your channel,

- When YouTube removes spam subscribers from your channel.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6392782

How subscribers work (FAQ)

Does YouTube automatically unsubscribe users from channels?

Do all of my videos show up in my subscribers' Subscription feeds?

Why are my subscribers telling me my videos aren’t showing up in their Subs feed?

How does YouTube count subscribers?

Do closed accounts count toward my subscriber count?

Do spam accounts count toward my subscriber count?

Why is my subscriber count changing or dropping?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7280746

Report a YouTube issue

Report an issue related to your channel subscribers

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/4347644

YouTube Terms of Service

https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat

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What strategies for gaining YouTube views aren’t allowed?
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YouTube view abuse:
Purchasing views
Deceptive layouts
Serving pop-unders
Redirects
My video removed for viewcount gaming
Removal for viewcount gaming
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YouTube Help Center
YouTube Tips
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Privacy Law 101

By Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat

Are you worried about your Personal Information?

What is Privacy?

Privacy is: “The right to be free of unnecessary public scrutiny, or to be let alone”.

Concepts of privacy:

1. Right to be let alone

2. Limited access

3. Control over information

4. States of privacy

5. Secrecy

6. Personhood and autonomy

7. Self-identity and personal growth

8. Intimacy

9. Concepts in popular media

The Right to Privacy

It is our right to keep a domain around us.

It gives us the ability to choose which parts in this domain can be accessed by others, and to control the extent, manner and timing of the use of those parts we choose to disclose.

Privacy Law

Is the area of law concerning the protecting and preserving of privacy rights of individuals.

Personal Information - Collection & Use

Collection of solicited personal information

Use or disclosure of personal information

Security of personal information

Access to personal information

Correction of personal information

Privacy Policy

A privacy policy should consist of the following information in accordance with these rules:

1. Clear and easily accessible statements of its practices and policies;

2. Type of personal or sensitive personal data or information collected;

3. Purpose of collection and usage of such information;

4. Disclosure of information including sensitive personal data or information;

5. Reasonable security practices and procedures.

Thanks

Smart contracts - Part 4: legal issues

By Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat

This post is addressing the legal issues of smart contracts & continuing the previous videos we set to address the legal issues of smart contracts & law.

3.

The enforceability of smart contracts

As declared in the previous video (Part 3), we addressed two major legal challenges facing the validity and enforceability of smart contracts in association to their formation and the nature of coding; so the legal requirements of enforceability are:

Offer and acceptance, certainty and consideration;

Relevancy of formation language & the validity of coded programs to meet this requirement

We consider the process of contracting (the wholesale adoption of the phrase) to be unhelpful, as the term ‘contract’ invites the traditional associated concepts:

Consent, Legal Capacity, Certainty & Consideration

4.

Jurisdiction & Applicable Law

To decide which jurisdiction and Law applied in case of failure or breach, one must consider three main rules:

Place of contracting,

Place of execution,

The agreed terms of jurisdiction and law applicable in case of a breach or conflict

However, where servers are decentralized and can be spread around the world & where parties can be contracting anywhere through the net, locating & pinpointing where a breach or failure occurred (and taking the appropriate cross-border action) may be complex in smart contracts.

Also, it's not clear how this system is handling these issues!! Especially where a Block doesn't allow parties to modify its content.

I hope this was useful

Smart contracts - Part 3: legal issues

By Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat

To identify the legal issues of smart contracts we need first to know how smart contracts work

1.

(A) wants to buy something from (B), a product or service or anything else

2.

The deal / transaction is represented online as a "Block", coding the transaction in a certain format (if/then)

3.

The block is broadcast to every party in the network

4.

Users in the network approve that the transaction is valid

5.

The block then can be added to the chain, which provides an indelible & transparent record of transactions / contracts

6.

The transaction is executed

The legal issues & challenges facing the legal status of smart contracts

1.

Formation of contracts

Rules & conditions

It is known that a contract is the "Law of will", and in order to consider a contract as a legal one it must meet number of legal requirements, which are:

Under the common law system

Consent (legal capacity & free will),

Purpose,

Consideration.

Under the civil law system

Consent (legal capacity & free will),

Subject-matter (legitimate, exist or able to be existed & lawful),

Cause (legitimate & lawful cause).

So

Do smart contracts meet these legal requirements?!

I argue that the answer is, yet: NO

According to the nature and mechanism of how smart contracts work, one can't be sure that all requirements are met as conditioned by Law, especially in regard with contracts formation, not only execution!!

Therefore, the formation of smart contracts are not yet clear to assume that they are 100% legal !, which is seen as a significant issue that affect the legitimacy, validity & enforceability of smart contracts for many reasons ...

What if one of the parties lost his/her legal capacity for any reason after the block is set?! Or there was a defect facing parties' will!!

What if one of the parties want to modify or change the term agreed on?! Or the price was not reasonable for any reason?!

What if the subject-matter was not lawful or not existed?!

What if the cause of contract was not clear?!

What if there was an obstacle to execute the contract for any reason?!

Many other questions might take place in this regard and which can question the validity of smart contracts!!!

2.

The natural language of contracts

(Readability and understandability)

Legal contracts must be understood to be executed & be enforceable, where parties should know exactly what they are in & agreed on.

Also it is mandatory that contracts must be readable or easy to be understood - as to their language - in order to be valid and enforceable thereafter.

So

Does the If/Then format (coding language) meet the conditions of readability and understandability?!

I argue that the answer is: NO or let's say it’s not yet clear enough to say yes.

According to the if/then format (coding) that smart contracts are set by, no one can claim that all users of the internet or a system can read or understand that language easily and clearly.

In addition, after the transaction is represented as a Block, no one can edit or modify or correct its content, (this is against the authority of free will and the concepts of contracting), and which is seen as to affect the validity and enforceability of smart contracts and for many reasons ...

What if the system misunderstand parties' real intentions or misinterpret that for any technical reason or other reasons?!

What if there was an error during the coding process?!

What if one of the parties or both want to change or modify a term or anything in the transaction?!

Is it clear enough to assume that all users can understand and read codes or write a full contract in that format?!

And many other questions to be asked that can justify my argument!!

The other legal issues & challenges will be addressed in Part 4

Smart contracts - Part 2: format & some legal issues

By Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat

Smart contracts format

Smart contracts use if & then coding language.

Legal aspects & concerns - comparing traditional contracts with smart contracts

Legal issues & challenges

1. The natural language of  legal contracts

2. The legal rules of contractual  formation

3. Jurisdictional & applicable law

4. The legal enforceability of smart contracts

5. Dispute resolution

Smart Contracts: Part 1 - An Introduction

By Dr. Mohammad Al-Thunibat

What is a smart contract?

Smart contract is a:

Coded instructions which execute on the occurrence of an unequivocal event. The common example of a “primitive” smart contract is the simple vending machine. On the insertion of sufficient funds, the machine will release the requested item.

Note: It is questionable whether these are truly contracts or not!

Clarification

1. An option contract between parties is written as code into the blockchain. The individuals involved are anonymous, but the contract is the public ledger.

2. A triggering event like as expiration date and strike price is hit and the contract executes itself according to the coded terms.

3. Regulators can use the blockchain to understand the activity in the market while maintaining the privacy of individuals actors' positions.

How smart contracts work?

I hope this has been useful

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