Editing Tom Evans Audio copyright strike

In November 2024, YouTube creator [https://www.youtube.com/@MendItMark Mend It Mark] uploaded a video in which he repaired a [https://audiodesign.co.uk/styled-23/styled-27/index.html MasterGroove SR Mk3] pre-amp made by Tom Evans Audio. In the video, he took the pre-amp apart and to help diagnose the issue, he reverse engineered the device and created some schematic diagrams.<ref>https://archive.org/details/the-gbp-25-000-pre-amp-that-went-wrong-tom-evans-mastergroove-sr-mk-iii-rjbp-fsfzi-i</ref> He also made his viewers aware of the fact that the price of this pre-amp is £25,000 (about 30,000 USD) and that many of the electrical components in the pre-amp had the part numbers scraped off.

After the video was published, Tom Evans Audio issued a copyright strike against the video which resulted in the video being taken down. Mend It Mark was not informed on what the copyright infringement was.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYpPNCzQCVQ</ref> This decision was met with criticism from creators on YouTube since it questions whether or not showing a circuit design in a video could be considered copyright infringement.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJYIhLQJtTs</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93QlQN_1yUA</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15AiQv-EiGM</ref> In December 2024, Louis Rossmann re-uploaded Mend It Mark's original video to his channel with his own introduction.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hVe_spuJQI</ref> As of January 2025, the video is still up on his channel.

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