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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: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:33PM (3 children)
Each SF work is generally focused on a narrow raft of changes. Most maintain the existing social order without change, but change the technological background. Or adopt a social order out of communal myth, like monarchy (usually in a highly idealized form).
If you want a story that's based around a replacement for copyright, create the story. It needs to address why the replacement was valid, what problems it solves, etc. It also needs one of the classical human background stories. Romance it typical, but not the only one. Seeking for power is another. And occasional success is a quest to achieve justice (which is going to need to define why the desired goal is just). It's quite doable, but you need a justifiable (in the context of the story) replacement, and you need to explain it, why it's worth struggling to achieve, etc. while not losing your audience.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Monday July 06 2020, @02:29PM (1 child)
> If you want a story that's based around a replacement for copyright, create the story.
If you believe I can do that, most flattering. If I can, and I do, would you read it?
> It also needs one of the classical human background stories. Romance it typical, but not the only one. Seeking for power is another
Are you a writer? Published? Not that fans can't make perfectly good suggestions and critiques, but as the common wisdom has it, you have to do something to really know what it's like and to appreciate the difficulties. I've written a little fiction, without trying to publish anything. As you might expect, there's all kinds of ways stories can go wrong. If you can make believable and interesting characters, and the same for the setting, and you have a decent plot in mind, you've only just started. Among the wrong turns is the urge to warp the story into spewing bad propaganda (like Ayn Rand's stuff), and I certainly would not want the story to be only a thinly veiled exposition on what I think could replace copyright. Otherwise, might as well just write an essay.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:21AM
I've only written programs. I fall way down on the "human interest story" part of the job. I tried a couple of times, but even I could tell that it was a failure. But I have put a bit of time into figuring out why I like certain stories and not others.
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 Wednesday July 08 2020, @05:50PM
And his story still succinctly describes the parable of ever extended copyright law as a formerly American(now Canadian) draft dodger and poorish author, formerly married to a college educated woman who was supposed to go up on the next shuttle after Challenger to perform the first zero-g dance performance, sadly denied after the loss of Challenger and its first civilian passenger and the political damage losing another would do to the space program. Instead she died on Earth of cancer almost 30 years later, dream unrealized, and us sitting around with our collective thumbs up our ass having learned nothing from either her or her husband's dreams of a better and more beautiful tomorrow, rather in fact showing that the less optimistic outlooks are what we have to look forward to.