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Youtube is following the letter of law. They are acting on someone's claim of copyright infringement, and allowing the accused to dispute the claim. Chances ma
by IfOnlyYouKnew 5y ago
Youtube is following the letter of law. They are acting on someone's claim of copyright infringement, and allowing the accused to dispute the claim.
Chances may be better going after the claimant. But this case, like many other, seems to be a false positive of a maybe slightly too sensitive system rather than some wild claim with absolutely no rational basis.
Does anyone believe it's possible to identify copyright violations with complete accuracy? If not, why is it such a terrible scandal if some erroneous claims are made, which can be disputed with a few clicks?
If you happened to be a musician, how many videos using your music unauthorised would you be willing to tolerate for avoiding a single erroneous claim against some video of yours?
- majormajor 5y agoIf 'Deestan's comment about this being a typical scheme to temporarily steal ad revenue is accurate, then Youtube is probably still legally in the clear to let someone else benefit like that - I'm sure their TOS covers all sorts of shit - but definitely should (from a "what's best for the world" perspective) try to do something about that to prevent abuse of the system.
- sumtechguy 5y agoWhat is also interesting is the game many youtubers have resorted to playing. Where they upload videos 5 or 6 times and have them demonetized and they play the 'what broke the system this time' game and reupload. Even then 6 months later someone else can come along and change the rules and half their catalog is struck for some rule/copyright violation. It is why we are seeing lots of 'patron' style support systems, or self promoted ads by the people making the vids. edit: removed bit that I am probably wrong on.
- kelnos 5y agoHow does that work, though? Wouldn't each of those demonetized uploads count as a copyright strike? AIUI, after three of those your account gets deactivated.
- sumtechguy 5y agoI think if it comes out in favor of the uploader the strike goes away. If not yeah I think it counts against them. I also think if they have content that tweaks it and they remove it the strike goes away.
- marcan_42 5y agoThis is not someone's claim of copyright infringement. This is YouTube's broken Content ID system automatically deciding that me typing on my keyboard sounds too close to them typing on their keyboard. It's been known to claim white noise videos and other nonsense.