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Assuming YouTube does dedup on their backend then this is the same issue that megaupload has to deal with before they were taken offline. Namely, if an infringi
by Laforet 5y ago
Assuming YouTube does dedup on their backend then this is the same issue that megaupload has to deal with before they were taken offline. Namely, if an infringing file has multiple links pointing to it, is the platform obliged to take down all of them when presented with a DMCA notice? If so, is the platform then obliged to take down every slightly different version of the same infringing content? Where do their duties end?
As much as we malign content it is still more workable than having YouTube manually purging all videos that appears to be infringing based on very little information. And most content creators who sample copyrighted media under fair use have learned to cope. The more egregious issues are more concentrated around misattributed licenses and musical performance.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> Assuming YouTube does dedup on their backend then this is the same issue that megaupload has to deal with before they were taken offline. This is not an assumption I would make. MegaUpload was a file transfer site. Videos on YouTube do not tend to be duplicates of other videos on YouTube.
- chris11 5y agoI agree. I'll occasionally come across full episodes of TV shows on YouTube. Uploaders will try to get around copyright detection by doing things like flipping video or inserting black frames. I'm assuming a simple dedupe based block could easily be bypassed.
- Laforet 5y agoPublishers sometime elect to leave full episodes on YouTube either to collect passive ad revenue or just to entice people into watching more on a paid platform. For example, the 1st season of Man vs. Food can be found on YouTube in its entirety. However all the later seasons are heavily cracked down by contentID to the point that the handful of surviving episodes all had serious visual or audio distortions rendering them unwatchable - some episodes were literally uploaded with a badly tuned anaglyph 3D filter that will probably need its own algorithm (or a pair of specially purposed 3D glasses) to unscramble.
- tremon 5y agoIf so, is the platform then obliged to take down every slightly different version of the same infringing content? Well, no, because the platform doesn't know which of those links were published with permission of the copyright holder and which weren't.
- lupire 5y agoWhy not? Why isn't there a box for "copyrighy owner" on the upload form, and YT can check when the same content has different claimed owners?