Then watch this: https://youtu.be/v6uH71BdMBA

Suede is a small, New Zealand, YouTuber of 20,000 subscribers who is best known for his series Pokemon Journeys, in which he reviews the pokemon anime starting from the first season of Kanto.

Unfortunately, you can no longer watch Suede.

Shopro, the owners of the Pokemon anime, have sued Suede in small claims court in Japan. They sent that information to YouTube and YouTube took down all of Suede's videos and will soon be deleting his channel.

Shopro bypassed the entire copyright claims system of YouTube and went straight to sueing an international YouTuber for violating the copyright system of a different country.

This can happen with any YouTuber who uses clips or content owned by any Japanese company.

Fair Use is a mess, but fixes can be made by making a fuss, a big fuss.

We cannot allow companies to bully creators and destroy their work.

I'll be wearing this when I see Trash Taste next month!!

So yeah, Anime and Japanese Media Channels could be in serious trouble.

Basically, ShoPro have found out a tactic that allows them to basically shut down any channel with Pokemon anime related content with extreme ease. They don’t have to deal with the US Fair Use Laws, or YouTube’s Claim System; they can basically ignore those and do however they please.

And Suede might not be the last.

To try to simplify things (or you could watch the video linked since Suede explains this more clearly):

Suede is an Anime YouTuber who does an abridged/review combination of the Pokemon Anime Series, and recently he got hit with a rather nasty tactic by ShoPro that can basically circumvent USA fair use laws, and can only be dealt with by going directly to Japan.

Which is expensive and difficult to do for someone like Suede.

And it gets even worse.

If Suede's case ends with him losing, it could become precedent for any Japanese company to take down ANY channel with Japanese Anime/Media content they own (since Japan doesn't have fair use laws/Fair use is basically nonexistent in Japan) if they think you’re using their media in a way they dislike.

And there's absolutely nothing you'd be able to do about it unless you're willing to pay expensive international lawyer fees to fight a legal battle you might not be able to win.

This also means that if you or any Anime YouTuber succeeded in fending off these kinds of attempts by the companies in the past because they used YouTube’s US based system, THAT won’t work anymore because they’re making you have to fight on THEIR turf, on THEIR terms.

And if you refuse to pay, you’d pretty much be kept from ever going to Japan unless you want to be grabbed at the border and forced to pay.

And also needless to say, Suede’s channel is being taken down and there is pretty much nothing he can do about it.