Creators continue to be unhappy with the way YouTube treats them - some going all to the way to filing lawsuits against the global video giant, owned by Google.
TorrentFreak has a report about one such case, involving creator DJ Short-E - who said he in the past earned over $300,000 on the platform. And now it looks like he wants to round the number to about a million with his $720,000 breach-of-contract lawsuit, that alleges vindictive behavior on the part of YouTube.
The compensation figure quoted in the lawsuit is based on revenues lost on account of deleted content, and also lost subscribers, advertising and bookings, all of which occurred when YouTube terminated the creator's channels for what the company said was copyright infringement.
The YouTuber, whose real-world name is Erik Mishiyev, says he first faced copyright claims against some of his most profitable videos in 2016, to which he responded with successful counter-claims.
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