YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.

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Strong rec Hokusai · 2020-03 · on “Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library Harms Authors”

> many unintuitive parts I think a more concrete term for unintuitive is outdated. The use cases for Copyright law were defined a century ago when society and technology was different. It is difficult for current citizens to understand copyright law because has nothing to do with their own day to day experiences and needs. Great video about Copyright by Tom Scott: [this video] Too long didn't see: Copyright is broken needs to be fixed in a way that fits the current situation and needs, but, it is going to be damn hard to do.

Strong rec peterkos · 2020-05 · on “Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms”

> youtube algo's screwing up content creator A slightly different problem, but Tom Scott did an excellent video on the automation of the copyright system on YouTube: [this video] In summary, auto copyright checking solves Most copyright issues, to a degree that no other solution can really provide. And while there are a small (yet very unfair) number of false positives, the benefit that the system as a whole allows far outpaces that downtrend: for YouTube to exist! With regards to fact checking, I'd be more interested to hear how many people who read those kind of "fact flags" actually change their opinion in an easy case (flat earth, climate change, etc.). Honestly, the problem of "true truth" m

Strong rec jimbob45 · 2020-11 · on “A Modest Proposal in the New Age of DMCA Takedown Aggression”

[this video] Tom Scott explains the situation and the solution best. Just shorten copyright to 20 years (instead of life + 70 years). .......that said, we did just strong-arm the world into matching US copyright law and I’m not sure we could do that now even if we wanted to.

Strong rec 0xTJ · 2021-05 · on “Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]”

A really great video (if you're willing to spend the better part of an hour watching it) about this is YouTube's Copyright System Isn't Broken. The World's Is.[1] by Tom Scott. [1] [this video]

Strong rec Laremere · 2021-06 · on “Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist”

I recommend the excellent video by Youtuber Tom Scott "YouTube's Copyright System Isn't Broken. The World's Is." [this video] While I agree with the OP in broad strokes (they clearly have the right to post and profit off their performance), I find that the vast majority of comments on Youtube's copyright claim system fail to even acknowledge major aspects of the problem. Perhaps Youtube's practical monopoly does it a disservice here, and it's hard to separate "big self publishing video platform" problems with Youtube specific problems. Without a system like YT currently has, it would get absolutely sued into oblivion by rightful copyright complaints. This is in many ways is a problem of copyright

Recommends oakesm9 · 2020-03 · on “I got my file from Clearview AI”

Related Tom Scott video [this video] tl;dr ContentID is a workaround for a broken copyright system. It's not perfect, but it's better for everyone than falling back to the default of copyright through court.

Recommends nayuki · 2020-04 · on “Copying is not theft, but censorship is (2012)”

Relevant - Tom Scott explains the copyright situation and YouTube's Content ID: [this video] (42 minutes)

Recommends anonymfus · 2020-04 · on “With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube”

Yes but an imitation is not necessary and usually a parody. There is a good Tom Scott's video about this distinction and other common misconceptions about copyright: [this video] (42 interesting minutes)