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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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:14PM (4 children)
This is a genius move for Team R. No one is voting for Trump except for Eric and maybe Don Jr. -- so this is really about splitting the Biden vote. Kanye is BIPOC so the #BLM wing of the Democrats are going to have to vote for him on principal. Result: he becomes the first President to rap at his own inauguration (LBJ came close but couldn't find anything to rhyme with 'Thanks for the votes, all you niggers').
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:40PM
>> Kanye is BIPOC so the #BLM wing of the Democrats
Found the Russian Troll! If you spoke English better you would know that they prefer to be called Black, not BIPOC, and that the phrase "#BLM wing of the Democrats" is a tautology since you say either #BLM or Democrats and the other is implicit.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:48PM (2 children)
I'll believe that when I see it. No matter how moronic Trump gets, 40% of the country will vote for him because he has an R next to his name.
I'm trying to imagine what him eating a baby on live television would do. I bet he'd still wind up with at least 25% of the vote.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday July 06 2020, @04:28AM
Elections are often decided on which side gets their base out along with keeping the other sides base at home. The way it looks now is a lot of Republican's will seriously consider not voting.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 06 2020, @09:48PM
The baby must be alive when the feasting begins. And, the baby must be a registered Democrat. And, the baby's registered Democrat parents must be present, screaming out their horror. The grandparents of the baby may or may not be corraled backstage, to provide a chorus for the parents screaming.
Admit it - with a show like that, even most Democrats would vote for Trump. Don't believe me? Take a poll, and see how many Dems secretly identify as Mad Max, or the Punisher, or maybe as Batman. Oh yeah, Batman. If Trump is going to eat babies, he needs to wear a cape, and some tights. It wouldn't be right if he didn't dress the part.