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I really wish the content id system was open to all. Simply default to the first person to upload a piece of video to the site 'owns' it. If you're a film st

I really wish the content id system was open to all. Simply default to the first person to upload a piece of video to the site 'owns' it. If you're a film studio or something you can upload a video and set it to private to 'own' content before you release it. I get that technically scaling content id is hard, but it seems like a solvable technical challenge considering the market position it would give YouTube as the de facto copyright reference index. Everyone has to upload there first unless they want to risk getting their content 'owned' by someone else and a battle to get it reassigned.

garblegarble 2y ago
For a while this was basically how it worked for all intents and purposes. I assume it's not like this anymore, but we used to do this with live tv broadcast material: rush out a private youtube video of individual segments for Content ID to ingest while on-air (because somebody else was posting clips from the show faster than us, claiming Content ID and stealing the ad revenue from the broadcaster's official public video of the final show) Getting Google to care enough to fix that problem was harder and slower than a technical solution.