[jobigoud]

But that can't be left to the claimant. So Google should charge a fee for each complaint to cover the cost of the verification. But then you could make the company pay more simply by uploading thousands of infringing videos…

In any case a simple air date sanity check would have prevented this particular case.

[codys]

By "certify", GP might mean "certify under penalty of perjury", where the specific wording (which would probably need some notes about certifying they had verified their ownership) is strict enough to give one a bit of legal ammunition against false complaints.

[Esau]

Exactly. Sorry if I wasn't explicit enough.