Weigel's copyright strikes

Whatever any of you do, DO NOT UPLOAD ANY TOON IN WITH ME OR SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS VIDEOS TO YOUTUBE. Lately, Weigel has been taking down any uploads of clips from those shows from YouTube. This resulted in my channel being terminated. This is corrupt and unjust. Many of these videos are short and do not contain much footage from Weigel. Sometimes, they copyright the whole video INCLUDING the cartoons. Something they do not own. I demand you to message Weigel about this. I laugh at the people who say "It's not a big deal" or "It's just a dumb YouTube channel". As if that justifies all of this.

I can sympathize with a studio that takes down cartoons because they don't want to lose sales. It’s only fair that they do that. But it is even more unfair when a giant corporation takes down stuff without warning or any prior statement whatsoever, even more so when they don't even own the bulk of what they are making. Plus, many Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons are still up on YouTube. EITHER TAKE DOWN EVERYTHING OR TAKE DOWN NOTHING. This is censorship, plain and simple. 

If you'd like to write a physical mail letter, Weigel's general address is below. Time and time again, it has been shown that personal physical letters can carry a great deal of weight when trying to contact a big, faceless corporation.

Write to:

Weigel Brodcasting Co.

Attn: MeTV

26 N Halsted St. 

Chicago, IL 60661

A more direct, immediate messages can be conveyed to MeTV on Twitter. There is no guarantee that people with authority will reply or even read your tweet, but it will nevertheless make your feelings known, and being posted publicly might make more people aware of the situation.

Tweet the channel at:

@MeTV

If you want to, you can include the link to my YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXebKZz5vnVD_k8ObIuSsSA

Hopefully, if enough people politely tweet, write, and protest, Weigel will reinstate my YouTube channel. 

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