The Fine Brothers are trying to copyright the word "React"

What? Why! That shouldn't be allowed.

To be honest I watch a lot of YouTube videos and have never come across this channel. Their idea seems pretty selfish, greedy, and downright stupid and ridiculous. Isn't there some channel that features a lot of videos of young kids reacting to something? (They did one video of kids reacting to Avril's Hello Kitty video, for example). Surely they are one of the channels that would be affected? There are many many YouTubers who do "reaction" videos, for example Chyaz (former BA member you might know of) did a video not too long ago where she "reacted" to old photos of herself on social media and several years ago she posted a video of her "reaction" to the new UK prime minister election. I'm certain there's others out there that post reaction videos to all kinds of things like elections, talent competition results, stories on the news, sports events (like Super Bowl reactions), fashion trends, anything really. There's no way someone can copyright something like that. I hope they don't succeed.

Same channel.

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I agree that this idea shouldn't be able to be copyrighted, especially by them. Do they have proof that they were the first to post a video of this sort? I highly doubt so.

Basically they want to license "their" format to other people around the world so that they can make legitimate fine brothers react videos? This seems like a bad idea, both in theory and practice. Allowing other people to make these react videos in with the fine brothers' ~brand attached would decrease the integrity of what they have already established on their own by making the videos themselves. No one except them and their team will be able to produce react videos in the same way as them, so there will mass amounts of videos of reactions holding the fine brothers ~branded title and logos, but yet will be different and will not create the same experience as watching one of the fine brothers' own videos.

And to build from that point, since these reaction videos will be different, due to the fact that it won't be the fine brothers and heir team making the videos, aren't these videos essentially the same as they would be without a license from the fine brothers? This is an absurd idea they have conjured. They want people who make reaction videos to begin licensing their ~brand so that they can earn a cut of potential monetization. Money going into their pockets is the only difference I am seeing that we be created. Because any plain reaction video will be nothing like a fine brothers' reaction video and therefore shouldn't wear the fine brothers' ~brand name. The videos cannot be produced the same (i.e. the lighting, camera quality, editing).

Their premise is stupid. "We want to let people around the world make reaction videos with out license". Um… people could already and were already doing this before you allowed them to lease your license!

Yes, definitely good news. Here is their official statement:

Is it just me, or are they completely missing the point? It sounds like they are retracting their plans based upon that 'people just don't understand their intentions'. Not the point, lol.

It sounds to me like they only dropped it because of the backlash and lost subscribers, not because they realize it was a stupid and greedy idea. You know, like those criminals who only say sorry because they were caught, not sorry for what they did. Well I guess it doesn't matter what made them drop it, the good thing is that they did.