My perspective as a content creator who got copyright strikes from WWE + some additional details (@Wrespresso)
Hi everyone. Sorry to beak kayfabe (especially if you know me) but I'm @Wrespresso on Instagram. A lot of people seem to be interested in this story about the copyright strikes, so I wanted to post about my experience, as someone who was one of the first few people hit.
I was hit initially last Friday after posting some reactions for SmackDown. They came in pretty much immediately after the show was done. About 90% of my clips were removed, leaving just a few from the beginning of the show. The report on the strikes allowed me to trace the "reporter" to a company named Stream Enforcement. This is somewhat interesting as it isn't WWE themselves imposing the strikes, they're paying an agency to go after content (some believe this is done via bots). There was some belief that they were going after content creators who were more negative about the shows, but that doesn't seem to be the case as I've seem almost everyone get something pulled.
I reached out to the agency earlier in the week hoping to get some guidance around what is/isn't permitted with Backlash this weekend but haven't heard back yet. These new rules appear to be extremely strict though, one creator I'm friends with received a temporary suspension because they played the audio (no video) in their clip.
Just wanted to share my experience/what I know so far, not sure whether people care enough about it but thought it'd be good to get this out there. If I can do anything to help just let me know.
EDIT: If it's useful, I'll come back and populate this post with the information/guidance I get back from the agency if that helps.