Fake Defenders Come Out of the Woodwork

Over the last two days, I’ve received a bunch comments on my posts defending We Are Era and calling me mentally ill. I’ll share snippets of what they wrote here, though not their entire 5000-word theses because they’re borrrriiiinnng – Here’s one from “neoxstodall” (who tracked down and emailed one of the people whose story … Read more

False Content ID Claim: Another Creator Comes Forward

This came in via email overnight (I’ve yet to collate others that have trickled through via Medium comments/social media messages) – Hi Jackie, I was recently falsely Content ID’d for a video of mine for a song that explicitly states that with proper attribution in the description, I am allowed to use it. The label who sent … Read more

We Are Era’s Guide to Stealing Revenue from Creators Like a Pro

(This is a re-blog from my Medium account, in case you came to this website without context) Seven years ago, Believe Music was dumb enough to try and claim they own the copyright to a piece of background music used in a bunch of my YouTube cooking videos. I blogged about it back then, which … Read more

Creative Commons Meets Corporate Greed: The We Are Era BV Story

A few days ago, I received an email from a streamer, who wrote this – Hi Jackie, I came across your post, https://jackiem.medium.com/we-are-eras-guide-to-stealing-revenue-from-creators-like-a-pro-1adba1d1dd2e, thanks to a comment from this post on Reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/1kwotwl/weareeramusicbv_copyright_claims/. I am an individual who streams to YouTube daily for many years now.  As such, I have been using the same music on my … Read more