21 ms·
> Nobody said protecting your IP rights must be easy. Shouldn't it be at least easy enough to make the hilders' situation somewhat more symmetric with the scal
by throwawaykf05 11y ago
> Nobody said protecting your IP rights must be easy.
Shouldn't it be at least easy enough to make the hilders' situation somewhat more symmetric with the scale of infringement that happens on the Internet? How is an industry of a few hundred thousand people (of which only hundreds probably man the DMCA stations, so to speak) supposed to cope with infringement by hundreds of millions of people?
- malka 11y agoThe answer is actually simple: they cannot.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoThe most obvious cases can still be handled by bots. The bots will have to be improved if good faith continues to be enforced as it has been in this case. Less clear cut stuff will need to either be allowed to slide or be vetted by a human as one part of the process. One could imagine that videos flagged as potentially infringing are queued by the system and people are paid to evaluate them according to a set of criteria that allow for fair use etc. As you bring up the issue of asymmetry. I do agree with you that there is a numerical asymmetry between rights holders and the public. However, once a case progresses there is a financial and legal asymmetry in favour of the rights holders. The DMCA takedown system tends to exasperate this as it removes publishers liability completely if they comply with a DMCA in favour of the rights holders. Basically intellectual property laws need some more common sense changes to bring balance so that everyone acting in good faith can feel safe and make a profit.
- junto 11y agoThat millions of people are infringing copyright is in itself a huge red flag. The system is wrong.