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Could you elucidate and source this? (Because it makes no sense to me. Fair use is allowed by most jurisdictions’ legal systems, but in practice not allowed by

Could you elucidate and source this? (Because it makes no sense to me. Fair use is allowed by most jurisdictions’ legal systems, but in practice not allowed by YouTube because they grant way too much power to copyright holders. Meanwhile, I find no grounds on which YouTube could legally or practically prevent or even hinder reusing public domain resources. Again, they’ve granted way too much power to people that claim to hold copyright on things, but really that’s just “putting anything on YouTube is risky”.)

anticensor 3y ago
> I find no grounds on which YouTube could legally or practically prevent or even hinder reusing public domain resources. They are totally allowed. YouTube is not a public utilty. ContentID, the software that enforces copyright and dissimilarity on YouTube, is coded based on the specific assumption that every piece of content has been uploaded to YouTube eventually originates from a uniquely determineable single origin. In fact, single-origin assumption is required for similarity checking software of this kind to work reliably (copyright&plagiarism enforcement).