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The fact that those people chose or happened to make a living off someone else's website doesn't give them employment rights. Unfortunately the platform is pro
by kw71 9y ago
The fact that those people chose or happened to make a living off someone else's website doesn't give them employment rights.
Unfortunately the platform is property of YouTube and while I think it would be nice for them to explain their rules when they invite the public to engage and participate, they are allowed to hold these as trade secrets :(
- SerLava 9y agoYou misunderstand. They all know there's no right to use YouTube. It's just that if they can't make money, people will stop making good shit and it will hamper or kill the whole platform.
- evgen 9y agoYou mean that if there is no direct economic incentive people will stop contributing to a generally available pool of content/IP? That does explain why open source software died off when no one could figure out how to make money from it...
- vetinari 9y agoOpen Source, and Free Software paid a lot of attention to foundation, on which their software was being built. You can think whatever you want about RMS rants about Java, but he and FSF sure did paid attention to the fact, that they must control everything, turtles all the way down, as much as possible. Otherwise, just one proprietary, non-replaceable layer in the stack, and the layer owner can control you.
- nailer 9y agoThat's exactly it: YouTube is 'sharing economy' - privatise the profits, socialise the expenses, in this case the costs of videos which are controversial.
- kthejoker2 9y agoAs a YouTube partner, I completely agree with this assessment. youTube doesn't give a damn about its creators. Caveat emptor.