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I think this part of youtube should be spun into a separate entity that delivers services to governments who should protect copyrights for which the copyright h
by 6510 5y ago
I think this part of youtube should be spun into a separate entity that delivers services to governments who should protect copyrights for which the copyright holder should pay a fee (read "a tax!").
I understand people are trying to make a living but I'm really tired of everyone else having to pay for their copyright though all kinds of "externalizes" like trolling fair use, making it impossible to find some music to add to a video, do a remix, make fan art etc etc etc I think the public is missing out on 99% of the potential creations and the creativity that comes from them. Learning a new skill is hard if you have no access to anything. The economy is compromised here. Then we also have to view advertisements so that copyright enforcement can be paid for? I use to have thousands (seriously) of youtube subscriptions. Every channel worth watching is gone and most of it was over bullshit violations of fair use. Copyright didn't enhance my experience, it ruined it. The best instance was a movie (that I wont name) made from videos endlessly duplicated on the web from which the origin was impossible to trace. After the movie was launched everyone got a take down notice. Accounts got flagged, people got banned. (not just youtube but also their other services like gmail) That the videos had been online for over a decade didn't bother the process at all.
When I play my guitar I hardly feel every string I pull is a wonderful new creation that I should own from now on(???) If I do feel like that I would expect to pay for these services myself. If the creations are not valuable enough to pay for copyright enforcement then they are simply not valuable enough - period. It shouldn't mean other people now have to pay for it.
If you play music (a recording) in public (in your bar, disco, restaurant etc) in the Netherlands you have to pay fees regardless of the artist being registered with the entity. The exception is if you have specific written permission. I'm just playing my guitar, why cant I just have people use my music? Why do I have to do extra work so that some unrelated 4rd party can get paid? Why does google have to pay for it? By what logic should google be the one to decide what shall and shall not pass? They have an elaborate system that took a lot of effort, cost them a lot of money and it doesn't work. Just let government do it and charge the tax for the service and deal with false claims similarly - in court. The recording studios claim to be missing out on hundreds of billions. By that logic governments could make a HUGE profit on these taxes. Lets not make it a flat tax, let it scale to the moon.