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For many years, Google-owned YouTube has been wrestling with the vast amounts of copyright-infringing content being uploaded by users to its platform.
The challenge is met by YouTube by taking down content for which copyright holders file a legitimate infringement complaint under the DMCA. It also operates a voluntary system known as Content ID, which allows larger rightsholders to settle disputes by either blocking contentious content automatically at the point of upload or monetizing it to generate revenue.
A class action lawsuit filed Thursday in a California court by Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider tears apart YouTube’s efforts. It claims that the video-sharing platform fails on a grand scale to protect “ordinary creators” who are “denied any meaningful opportunity to prevent YouTube’s public display of works that infringe their copyrights — no matter how many times their works have previously been pirated on the platform.”
The 44-page complaint leaves no stone unturned, slamming YouTube as a platform designed from the ground up to draw in users with the lure of a “vast library” of pirated content and incentivizing the posting of even more material. YouTube then reaps the rewards via advertising revenue and exploitation of personal data at the expense of copyright holders who never gave permission for their work to be uploaded.
The lawsuit further criticizes YouTube for not only preventing smaller artists from accessing its Content ID system but denouncing the fingerprinting system itself, describing it as a mechanism used by YouTube to prevent known infringing users from being terminated from the site under the repeat infringer requirements of the DMCA.
The full complaint can be obtained here (pdf)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:04PM (14 children)
Bad racist! Go to the corner and kneel on your knee.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:17PM (13 children)
Where's the racism? There's plenty of shite noise by people of various ethnic origins being peddled as "music". Mr. West's is only being singled out because the discussion happens to be about him. If the discussion regarded the possibility of Mr. Willis running for president, you can bet his "music" would be similarly derided. (I'm sorry, Bruce, but it's true: music was never going to make your career.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:55PM (3 children)
The only votes that dumb fuck is gonna get is from his shit for taste fans. Trumps going to win this election, Biden already screwed himself saying "you aren't black if you don't vote for me"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:17PM (1 child)
I'll believe that when I see it. No matter how moronic Biden gets, 40% of the country will vote for him because he has a D next to his name.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:25PM
60% of those are probably still vomiting from pelosis bullshit and have switched sides.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @02:56AM
Yep. That's exactly what the polls say [fivethirtyeight.com].
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @10:16PM (6 children)
》 Where's the racism?
Open your eyes, there's racism everywhere. The fact that you can ask a question like that today means you still don't see it - and that is what makes you a racist. #BLM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @01:34AM
New hashtag #BLDFM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @03:49AM (4 children)
There's an exhange [youtu.be] in an episode of Lucifer that nicely spells out the point you clearly missed.
Lucifer is speaking with a young, black hip-hop artist.
Hip-hopper: What, you don't like hip-hop?
Lucifer: No, I most certainly do not. [If you're following along, that's the equivalent to the statement above about West's music being shite.]
Hip-hopper: Well that offends me. You have a problem with black people? [This would be your point. Pay attention, the clarification is coming up next.]
Lucifer: No, not in the slightest. I just hate your music. And when I say "your music", I mean your music, not the music made by other black people. Without the blues there'd be no devil's music whatsoever. There are, of course, many giants in the field. Just not you. Am I being clear?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @04:36AM (3 children)
You will find very little criticism of rap music (hip-hop is a subgenre nowadays, so it's not really accurate to use) that doesn't boil down to "blah blah offensive/politically incorrect/violent/dumb n****r music".
Reminiscent of popular criticism of country music, there's no attempt at differentiation between pop music and the far broader body of works that could be called "rap". Catharsis and artistic expression are not appreciated. Instead of appreciating the picture being painted [youtube.com], critics would rather be offended by a view from a vantage so different from their own.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @11:18AM
Yo, nigger, gonna fuck my ho
Yo, nigger, drink some Dom Perignon
Yo, nigger, shoot me a cop
Yo nigger, rhyme 'til I drop
... sorry, my friend, hip-hop is not music.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @01:29PM
With Rap. as with just about everything, Sturgeon's Law [wikipedia.org] applies.
That elusive ten percent may be hard to find. Here's a little help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01ezKYSFcY [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTUAESacQM [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUHBwErQmw4 [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxGTh7Ad4E [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNEgUPKxk7A [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX61LKg2TYM [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vQaVIoEjOM [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSjIP-O5YA [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-S5LJ-HciE [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5hpj4SzG4 [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu1n4jMeg6I [youtube.com]
That should be a good start. And you're welcome.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 06 2020, @10:16PM
Utter bullshit. Go to Youtube. Search for old "Hee Haw" episodes. You will find a pair of redneck fools doing rap in some of those episodes. The only difference between their rap, and today's Afro-American rap, is the quantity of obscenities in the "music". They sucked in the '60's and '70's, and they still suck today.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @12:52AM (1 child)
I would guess that most people don't know that Bruce Willis had a career in music, and know him for his acting career as well as all the times he saved the planet. To be fair, it seemed that Bruce Willis kind of did the whole music thing on the side for fun rather than trying to make a living off of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @11:21AM
Typical systemic racism right there, hijacking the discussion about rap music to promote a rich while male. Shame on you, racist! #BLM