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YouTube is not the problem here: its way of handling copyright claims, no matter how much you dislike it, is the only reason it survived this far. Would it be

YouTube is not the problem here: its way of handling copyright claims, no matter how much you dislike it, is the only reason it survived this far. Would it be nice if they added a 'monetize, but don't penalize the uploader, since this is really not something we care about that deeply' option for content owners? Sure. But the real solution is in copyright law reform, specifically in mandatory licensing. If, say, what a content owner can charge for a license to certain content is, like, 20% of their total revenue for that particular content over the past 5 years, that would solve an awful lot of problems. Plus, make cross-provider access to certain other content a lot more convenient for consumers.

jonas21 3y ago
"Monetize but don't penalize" is one of the options for content holders on YouTube [1]. But in this case, the copyright strikes are for full episodes of the TV show Bewitched, which the copyright holder does care about and is currently selling for $1.99 per episode [2]. And I don't know about the whole mandatory licensing thing. There are certainly places where I would not want things I've written or photos I've taken to appear, even if they paid me. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_ID_(system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_ID_(system) [2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.1ca9f72f-98ce-1216-ab52-15839faafcf2 https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.1ca9f72f...?