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What do you suggest? If you intend on redefining it in a way that takes away property rights, then I won't support it and neither should you.

• Dayshine 7y ago
  How about a trade-off, something like: In order to receive "Safe harbour" copyright immunity for uploaded user content, you have to have fairly lax rules on content (e.g. only blocking actual criminal content, which is all youtube have done before this, right?). If you want to significantly curate your content, you can't hide behind the legal protection of "uncurated user content".
  • dgzl 7y ago
    > If you want to significantly curate your content, you can't hide behind the legal protection of "uncurated user content". Is YouTube gaining some benefit from pretending to be an open platform? I'm not sure what you're saying here. Likewise, isn't copyright infringement is a criminal offense?
    • Dayshine 7y ago
      No, I'm suggesting changing laws. Youtube currently benefits massively from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_... as they are not directly liable for people uploading content they don't own. I'm suggesting that we only let people have that immunity if they aren't significantly curating their content. If they significantly curate their content, they should be able to curate copyright too.
      • root_axis 7y ago
        YouTube very aggressively curates copyrighted content. This idea seems like the ideal way to stifle any competition to YouTube because the little guys cannot afford to implement a sophisticated machine learning copyright dragnet.
  • Buge 7y ago
    >e.g. only blocking actual criminal content, which is all youtube have done before this, right? Youtube has always blocked porn. Youtube has had a other restrictions as well, for example at first all videos had to be under 10 minutes. In response to criticism of disturbing videos of children, youtube deleted 150k videos of children in disturbing situations[1]. Read the guidelines from 2009[2], there's various things banned there that aren't illegal. [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/blakemontgomery/youtube-has-deleted-hundreds-of-thousands-of-disturbing https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/blakemontgomery/youtube... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20091114041327/http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines https://web.archive.org/web/20091114041327/http://www.youtub...
• 50656E6973 7y ago
  Why don't we assert the property rights of the individual by defining one's personal data to be their rightful intellectual property?