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Ask HN: How do sites like Reddit and TikTok escape criticism for repost content?
After seeing numerous complaints from YouTube and TikTok OC posters, thr thought occurred to me that many sites now are encouraging users to re-host content originally posted by OC creators on those platforms to each other.
There is apparently a huge market for false creator accounts that re-post stolen content.
My question is How do sites like Reddit & TikTok escape criticism for duplicating YouTube content?
I think the platforms should hold a bit of accountability for this issue, as original content creators are often ignored, unpaid, and uncredited for most of the content that goes viral on platforms because of the repost culture they regularly don't account properly for?
- PaulHoule 5y agoPeople complain a lot but what good does it do? It seems even big organizations like the RIAA, Disney, NBC/Comcast cannot enforce intellectual property. They make a show of 'doing something', they muted the soundtrack of the video I made of my fishtank set to an old Pink Floyd song back when I was a hippie. But almost any song I think of can be found on Youtube be it Taylor Swift or Neal Young or Metallica. They pop up some dialog box asking you if you want to subscribe to their music service but why would you subscribe to any music service when Youtube has it all for free? You can't find every movie or TV show on Youtube but I watched Alter Ego on Youtube after I ran out of free views from the Fox web site. Youtube must have more TV shows and movies in it than Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV, etc. If "big content" can't constrain Google with their lawyers and paid off politicians, how can the independent content producer?
- winternett 5y agoYoutube and TikTok enforce content ID thoroughly on content from big businesses like Hollywood and Major record labels, but somehow it's not applied to normal creators. I think the flags are based on audio footprints. I also think it's pretty obvious to moderators when content is blatantly lifted from other sources in many cases on TiKTok ad Reddit. Reddit also owns IMGUR and their own Cdn platforms which enable users to upload stolen content regularly. It's extremely frustrating for original content creators to be getting very few organic views on their accounts and then to see one of their owned (stolen) videos show up as trending on YT and TikTok without any credit given. The platforms also don't have any means of addressing the issue and returning earned funds or other credits (likes and/or views) back to the original content posters. It's basically sponsored copyright infringement, and the only way for creators to avoid it is to never post anything. Huge problem if you ask me.