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The incentives today are crap. YouTube takes on a ton of liability if they get a valid takedown request but they leave it up, so the safest thing for them to do
by phailhaus 4y ago
The incentives today are crap. YouTube takes on a ton of liability if they get a valid takedown request but they leave it up, so the safest thing for them to do is immediately take down anything with a claim against it. This is obviously gameable by bad-faith actors.
- jackvalentine 4y agoThe thing is YouTube’s takedown process _isn’t_ a DMCA one. It’s one they made up to satiate the media companies that were suing them. An actual DMCA compliant process is much more user friendly - https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explained/the-digital-millennium-copyright-act-dmca/dmca-notice-takedown-process/ https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...
- bacchusracine 4y ago>The thing is YouTube’s takedown process _isn’t_ a DMCA one. It’s one they made up to satiate the media companies that were suing them. That's the plan I think. In another ten, twenty years or so who is going to remember the law as written over the way that it has been interpreted? This has been an end-run around the law from the beginning.