Craig Jones has just revealed that FloGrappling have hit the Craig Jones Invitational broadcast on YouTube with a copyright claim. Although many content creators have fallen foul of copyright claims from FloGrappling in the past when they’ve used match footage to create highlight reels or breakdowns, this is a truly unique situation. Not only was no part of the inaugural Craig Jones Invitational broadcast on FloGrappling, but the entire purpose of the event was to go head-to-head with the biggest event on the platform; ADCC. That makes it very hard to see how the platform could ever claim ownership over any of the content that was broadcast as part of CJI.
When Jones announced the copyright claim in a recent social media post, he actually went into detail on exactly what element of CJI FloGrappling was referring to:
“I’ve just woken up out here in Tokyo and what do I see this morning on the B-Team YouTube channel? A copyright claim on the Craig Jones Invitational for day 1 from none other than FloGrappling. What did they copyright? Defense Soap paid us for a commercial on our stream and that same commercial was on a FloGrappling WNO broadcast, and now we have a copyright claim.”
It seems unusual that FloGrappling might launch a copyright claim against CJI based on them using the same paid advert as a recent Who’s Number One event, but that is apparently the case. Jones then responded with a threat to make FloGrappling his next opponent after successfully taking on ADCC earlier this year:
”FloSports, you have 3 hours to remove this copyright claim or we’re gonna run a god damn Craig Jones Invitational the same day as Who’s Number One, every single one of your events. And if you don’t believe me… Just ask Mo Jassim.”
Craig Jones shared the news that FloGrappling had hit the broadcast of the Craig Jones Invitational with a copyright claim in a recent post to his official Instagram account:
