§ 506. Criminal offenses4
(a) Criminal Infringement. —
(1) In general. — Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed —
(c) Fraudulent Copyright Notice. — Any person who, with fraudulent intent, places on any article a notice of copyright or words of the same purport that such person knows to be false, or who, with fraudulent intent, publicly distributes or imports for public distribution any article bearing such notice or words that such person knows to be false, shall be fined not more than $2,500.
CAVEAT: The accused is naturally innocent until proven guilty. A Plausible defense might be that a third party impersonated Darren Meade or his company Kairos-Meade.
Apparently, Darren Meade committed a crime with a fraudulent copyright notice. YouTube removed a damaging video that revealed Darren Meade's gleeful description of the pain he was inflicting on a smear campaign target.
The copyright owner of the video referenced above is unknown, but we have our suspicions. Notwithstanding, if Darren Meade through his company “Kairos-Meade” did successfully have the video removed from YouTube under copyright violation notice, then he has committed a crime.