The Truth about KhalifahKlothing’s YouTube Suspension.

by | Sep 26, 2011 | Posts | 12 comments

There is a lot of information floating around about what happened to KhalifahKlothing’s YouTube channel.

The truth is KhalifahKlothing posted a number a videos they pirated from our YouTube channel. Having trouble contacting them in the past we filled out YouTube’s automated form to have a video removed becuase it was copied from our channel.

A few days later we were contacted by the owner of the KhalifahKlothing channel. He informed us that the channel had been reported for copyright infringement many times and was on their last strike.

Through an intermediary we came to an agreement that they could keep Salam Studios content on their channel if they simply linked back to ours with a credit.

At that point we retracted our complaint, we helped KhalifahKlothing file a counter claim, and we contacted YouTube directly by email and phone.

And lastly YouTube has not terminated the channel, they have suspended it.

This account has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s Copyright Policy.

 

12 Comments

  1. Belal
    Belal on September 26, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    Thanks for the clarification.

    I’ve updated my blog post with a link to yours here:
    bit.ly/rjlg6o

    • admin
      admin on September 26, 2011 at 4:44 pm

      Thank You, I appreciate that very much.

  2. Lessirey
    Lessirey on September 26, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    Saying I’ve benefited immensely from the shows uploaded by khalifahklothing is an understatement !

    IS there ANY way by which we can bring back the channel ?

    • admin
      admin on September 26, 2011 at 6:17 pm

      We have made all efforts to contact YouTube, we are waiting on a response.

      • Lessirey
        Lessirey on September 27, 2011 at 7:51 am

        Masha Allah ! Thats so good to hear, may this gets resolved at the earliest.

  3. Shanah
    Shanah on September 29, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    Alhamdullilah.. jazak Allah for the clarification.

  4. Ahmed
    Ahmed on October 1, 2011 at 6:56 pm

    I hope you get this sorted A.S.A.P 🙂

  5. Abdur Rahman
    Abdur Rahman on October 4, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    Now the message says that the account has been “terminated” not “suspended”…

    • admin
      admin on October 4, 2011 at 8:02 pm

      If you visit a video it says terminated, if you go to the channel it says suspended.

  6. Brother Dawud
    Brother Dawud on October 4, 2011 at 7:01 pm

    Brother/sister, did youtube acknowledge the cancellation of your claim? Please keep us updated on the status of getting the KhalifahKlothing channel back online. Allah bless you.

    • admin
      admin on October 4, 2011 at 7:48 pm

      We have not yet received any response from YouTube acknowledging our retraction, we resent the retraction last night.

  7. gbcali
    gbcali on October 19, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    YouTube has processed Salam Studios’ retraction and restored KhalifahKlothing’s YouTube channel.

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