World King Fu governing body uses copyright as a way to unmask YouTube critic

The international kung fu governing body is accused of using copyright claims to unmask a YouTube user who allegedly posted “defamatory” remarks. An Australian federal court has ordered Google to hand over the information the organization needs to identify the individual behind the YouTube account.

This week the Federal Court of Australia published a ruling that revealed that the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) (the organization that governs kung fu globally) is trying to identify the individual behind a channel that posted defamatory remarks about the organization. The IWUF asked the court to order YouTube’s owner Google to surrender the information it has that could help identify the individual who operates the channel Wushuleaks.

According to the ruling, the IWUF is “considering commencing proceedings” against the owner of Wushuleaks, but cannot do so because it cannot identify them, Torrent Freak reported.

According to the court documents, in late 2019 Walter Patrick Missingham, the current VP of IWUF, by late 2019, learned that Wushuleaks had published about 24 videos that contain content that the IWUF owns exclusive rights to. Missingham said that the videos also contained defamatory commentary about his organization.

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