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In 2010, I had interviewed a famous Indian poet using a friend's camera. The video was focused on him and only contains my and my friend's voice. I uploaded the video in 2011 and edited it to show our names and university name (where we interviewed him) in the credits.

The video stood there for 3 years. Many people watched it and commented and liked it.

Last week, suddenly some company claimed a copyright infringement and Youtube took it down. I want to tell my story to Youtube, but could not find a proper support email address for my query. Youtube says that I can file counter notification but that will be treated as a legal statement and can be used in court. I tried reaching out to the company which had filed the copyright infringement but got no response.

My concern is - even after I have done nothing wrong, I don't want to get involved in legal hassles and want a way to resolve this and reinstate my videos.

Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxJ1ZtPYsVA

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