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YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy

posted by martyb on Sunday July 05 2020, @05:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the Broken-As-Designed? dept.

chromas writes:

YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy * TorrentFreak

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)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @03:49AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @03:49AM (#1016819)

    Open your eyes, there's racism everywhere.

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @04:36AM (#1016839)

    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.