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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: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:59PM (7 children)
Bureaucrats don't lock down ideas and inventions except at the behest of their corporate masters.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:25PM (1 child)
That's not strictly true, though I'll admit that it's largely true. Bureaucrats are a diffuse power defending the status quo, and generally oppose change of any sort...unless it makes their job easier, or gives them an opportunity to be promoted.
N.B.: This is true of low and mid-level bureaucrats, but not of the top level ones who are often more interested in personal aggrandizement than of anything related to the nominal job.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @11:14AM
Nope, I have seen plenty of bureaucrats refuse any kind of attempt to make their jobs "easier" because it would change their work process.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Monday July 06 2020, @04:27AM (4 children)
The petty bureaucrat can bring down giants
Nobody can match their power of obstruction.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday July 06 2020, @09:10PM (3 children)
Do you have an example?
Maybe "bureaucrat" is just another one of those imaginary enemies you have to be constantly on the lookout for. There seem to be an awful lot of those.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 06 2020, @10:04PM (2 children)
Do you have an example?
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La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday July 06 2020, @10:17PM (1 child)
Right. That would be a no then.
You're just repeating the scary things you've heard on the TV.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 06 2020, @10:27PM
Yes, you're right, the world is perfect in every way
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..