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> Every YouTube creator that I follow has at least one video whose purpose is to rail against YouTube's mystifying demonetization policies, their trigger-happy
by qubax 8y ago
> Every YouTube creator that I follow has at least one video whose purpose is to rail against YouTube's mystifying demonetization policies, their trigger-happy DMCA policies that aggressively favor major copyright holders
To be fair, youtube was forced to do so because of corporate, news/media and political pressure. People forget that youtube also fought against the DMCA and corporate/media pressure before they lost.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezp4xa/youtube-is-the-latest-to-defend-users-from-ridiculous-copyright-claims https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezp4xa/youtube-is...
https://www.recode.net/2016/6/20/11974514/taylor-swift-youtube-dmca-music-letter https://www.recode.net/2016/6/20/11974514/taylor-swift-youtu...
> Listening to the CEO of YouTube cry "but think of the content creators!" is about as transparently self-serving as a US politician crying "but think of the children!"
Of course it is self-serving. But it's also true. Youtube has been consistent in their support of fair use because as you pointed out, it's in their own self interest.
The problem for youtube is that content creators on youtube aren't organized or powerful like the media companies. And whatever you think, they have to follow the law and like most companies, they are going to err on the side of caution when they are forced to.
- behringer 8y agoYouTube doesn't support fair use though...
- DanBC 8y agoYoutube's contentID is pretty poor, and easily abused. The DMCA seems to be widely misued. The new EU law isn't great, but it forces Youtube to design systems that don't catch non-infringing content. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR12103/parliament-adopts-its-position-on-digital-copyright-rules http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR... > Any action taken by platforms to check that uploads do not breach copyright rules must be designed in such a way as to avoid catching “non-infringing works”. Youtube is pushing article 13 as an attack of "fair use", when really for Youtube it's mostly an attack on the people uploading full episodes of tv shows with no added commentary.
- mikejb 8y ago> The new EU law isn't great, but it forces Youtube to design systems that don't catch non-infringing content. combine this with: > Parliament’s position toughens the Commission’s proposed plans to make online platforms and aggregators liable for copyright infringements. (emphasis mine) tl;dr: Design a system for a platform where you filter out every copyright infringement, because you're liable for them, but yo're not allowed to have any false positives. I can see why they're having trouble with this.