DMCA or not Google's negligent algorithm is causing people with a legitimate income to lose out. Maybe they should be at the end of the lawsuit to have them drop their automated system?
Lawsuit for what? Google has every legal right of rejecting any video they feel like it. That's defined in their ToS and there's no law that overrules it.
Google didn't "give" the video to anyone. They gave part of the income of the ads they happen to show alongside the video.
Legally, they're their ads and they can give its income to whoever they want. And they'd never be given to the video author unless he registered in Youtube's Content-ID, anyway.
Now I'll concede and say you may be right so long as the contract or ToS reads that way. My intuition would tell me that when a user agrees to allow youtube to use their content as a revenue stream in exchange for a cut of the revenue then that is what the uploader/owner is entitled to.
Contract law is extremely clear on what is necessary for what's called "consideration" and allowing one party of the contract to willfully provide that consideration to an unauthorized 3rd party without the contractual party's consent opens themselves to lawsuit.
Again, I'm going to go on the record here and admit you're probably right. Contracts by youtube and the like will be as vague as possible providing the maximum power to themselves in order to run the system. I would fully expect terms of the contract to provide the uploader with next to 0 rights regarding their content once its handed over.
