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They own all videos until you can prove otherwise, and win the appeal.
by zeeZ 5y ago
They own all videos until you can prove otherwise, and win the appeal.
- Longhanks 5y agoAh, I didn’t know other countries too have Germany‘s GEMA-Vermutung (per default assumption of media requiring payment to the GEMA for legal use).
- HWR_14 5y agoThe US doesn't have that same law. YouTube decided to do something similar of their own volition.
- ribosometronome 5y agoWe do, but it doesn't cover most modern devices. From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy: >17 U.S.C. § 1008 bars copyright infringement action and 17 U.S.C. § 1003 provides for a royalty of 2% of the initial transfer price for devices and 3% for media.[20] The royalty rate in 17 U.S.C. § 1004 was established by the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998. This only applies to CDs which are labeled and sold for music use; they do not apply to blank computer CDs, even though they can be (and often are) used to record or "burn" music from the computer to CD. The royalty also applies to stand-alone CD recorders, but not to CD burners used with computers. Most recently, portable satellite radio recording devices contribute to this royalty fund. >Thanks to a precedent established in a 1998 lawsuit involving the Rio PMP300 player, most MP3 players are deemed "computer peripherals" and are not subject to a royalty of this type in the U.S. >Currently, private copy royalties are generated in the US by the sale of "blank CDs and personal audio devices, media centers, satellite radio devices, and car audio systems that have recording capabilities."[21]
- HWR_14 5y agoOkay, that's a fair comment. However, I've never seen it apply to any device actually sold. Even in 1998, manufacturers just changed the label on blank CDs to evade the royalty.
- kzrdude 5y agoSweden has, and it's stupid.
- mhitza 5y agoRomania has something similar as well. If you own a business and want to play even ambiental/lounge music (even free music) you need to pay for a license. Of course the money collected that way doesn't go to the original artists.
- AlfeG 5y agoIn Russia everyone pays a penny for each medium that may store music. Not sure if any penny goes to musicians
- cfn 5y agoSame in Portugal.
- Accujack 5y agoYep. Youtube's de facto monopoly on video hosting has rules heavily tilted in favor of corporations and organizations like the RIAA and MPAA.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoThey want the revenue from hosting the content.