YouTube Copyright Enforcement
Comments discuss YouTube's ContentID system and DMCA compliance, criticizing how it enables unverified copyright claims and takedowns by rights holders without judicial review, while debating platform incentives and legal responsibilities.
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YouTube does their own thing with ContentID, which most copyright holders use :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27072092
YouTube already doesn't validate copyright claims are valid - the DMCA makes even trying legally perilous, and YouTube's motivation to keep on good terms with the publishers goes even further. So in that regard, this changes nothing.
Content doesn't have a TOS. It has a copyright. In the United States, at least, the DMCA allows content owners to file a take down request. If youtube has been ignoring DMCA takedown requests, that's news to me.
That's not evil. Youtube is at the mercy of "big content " and they have to comply with copyright claims. They're not in the business of judging whether a something can be copyrighted - that's a job for the courts.
YouTube have some intermediate states for copyright violations, so it's possible.
The problem is not YouTube, but the law. The DMCA requires that online service providers (YouTube, Reddit, etc.) comply immediately with any takedown request and without question, so long as it meets sufficient conditions.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...
wait, wouldn't this ruling technically also make youtube illegal too? they don't own the copyrights to all the videos they are hosting
Youtube doesn't care whether they actually have the rights or not, that's for the courts to decide. You can submit copyright claims on whatever on Youtube, they don't traverse the complex web of agreements and assignments to see if you actually hold copyright to the thing you're claiming.
You can't do this on YouTube because YT satisfied the big copyright manipulators by adding their own system in front of the DMCA. As a result these claims don't go through the DMCA process and the legal penalties (toothless to begin with) built into the DMCA aren't available to you. Content ID killing your content or claiming it because someone misused Content ID isn't a legal matter so you are powerless. This is how it is intended to be: It's what Viacom/Disney
Youtube used that defense and got away with it, isn't this what the DMCA is for?