Southern Baptist Convention’s Johnathan Howe Files Fraudulent Copyright Strike Against Evangelical Dark Web

For the past several years, Evangelical Dark Web has livestreamed the Annual Southern Baptist Convention. It’s a big boost for the channel, including this year, it helped us pass 10k subs. But the Southern Baptist Convention’s Jonathan Howe decided on Wednesday to abuse YouTube’s copyright system and file a fraudulent copyright strike against Evangelical Dark Web.

Evangelical Dark Web’s SBC livestream is always accompanied by commentary that provides insights on personalities, Robert’s Rules, the context surrounding the motions and resulutions, and even the worship music. In summary, our livestreams are exceedingly transformative over the plain SBC livestream.

Jonathan Howe, who acted on behalf of the Baptist Press, a fact made exceedingly clear in the contact email provided, is or should be aware of fair use doctrine, given his prominent role in media for the Southern Baptist Convention.

Howe has committed a 9th Commandment violation by filing a fraudulent copyright strike. Additionally, he is also committing a 7th Commandment violation by attempting to deny revenue earned from the livestreams. We urge Jonathan Howe to repent for these sins against us at Evangelical Dark Web and its founder, Ray Fava.

As it stands now, we submitted a counternotification that will reinstate the livestreams in 10 business days, unless Jonathan Howe can show evidence of filing suit against us. We have also promised to file a countersuit against Jonathan Howe, personally, the Baptist Press, and the SBC Executive Committee.

I don’t believe that Jonathan Howe has the legal green light to launch frivolous lawsuits and that he’s going to back down because he’s a coward who knows he’s in the wrong.