YouTube and its parents, Google and Alphabet, seem to be deaf to a problem that is affecting thousands of its content creators and millions of its viewers. It's time to make them listen.

As more and more people decide that they want to entertain a potential audience, many of them decide to review or remix works from other companies. Many of these fall under the protection of United States law as "fair use", but the current automated "guilty until proven innocent" system has prevented many from either making YouTube a major (or in some cases, primary) source of income, or from even being discovered at all. In addition, as mentioned in the above video by Nostalgia Critic creator and host Doug Walker, many of the methods for video makers to dispute these claims are either convoluted, restricted based on the copyright standing of their account, or just simply broken. We should let the heads of YouTube, Google, and Alphabet know that they need to create a new system that filters out actual copyright infringement from fair use instances, while also making it less susceptible to abuse from copyright holders big and small.