Filed August 11, 2025, this complaint by Helping Hands for Dignity Coalition, a Colorado non-profit, brings claims under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) and seeks declaratory relief for copyright infringement against Anthony Gurka, operator of the BlackHartKnight channel.
The suit alleges that Gurka submitted false DMCA counter-notices to YouTube to reinstate infringing videos that used substantial portions of works from the Regan Benson channel without meaningful commentary or transformation. According to the filing, the counter-notices repeated boilerplate assertions of “fair use” under penalty of perjury, while ignoring timestamped maps identifying long, uninterrupted stretches of copied footage.