YouTube’s copyright approach is fucking terrible. There’s that Tom Scott video where he says YouTube’s copyright isn’t broken, the law is, and the main point he’s trying to make is a good one, but he neglects to address the ways that YouTube specifically is broken.
Everything about Content ID is stuff they have voluntarily done above and beyond what the law requires. And Content ID makes no allowances for fair use and does not penalise false claims in any way. But worse, there are regular abuses of content ID for things that are not even under copyright at all. I’ve had videos of me performing Beethoven’s scores receive content ID claims, despite the composition bring public domain and the recording being entirely my own copyright. And you regularly hear stories of people using NASA footage (which is public domain) or other content that’s public domain by law get claimed by news organisations that had also used the same NASA footage and claimed it as theirs. Again, YouTube just lets them do this. Nothing about copyright law requires them to.
YouTube’s copyright approach is fucking terrible. There’s that Tom Scott video where he says YouTube’s copyright isn’t broken, the law is, and the main point he’s trying to make is a good one, but he neglects to address the ways that YouTube specifically is broken.
Everything about Content ID is stuff they have voluntarily done above and beyond what the law requires. And Content ID makes no allowances for fair use and does not penalise false claims in any way. But worse, there are regular abuses of content ID for things that are not even under copyright at all. I’ve had videos of me performing Beethoven’s scores receive content ID claims, despite the composition bring public domain and the recording being entirely my own copyright. And you regularly hear stories of people using NASA footage (which is public domain) or other content that’s public domain by law get claimed by news organisations that had also used the same NASA footage and claimed it as theirs. Again, YouTube just lets them do this. Nothing about copyright law requires them to.