Wouldn't it be great if, for every false copyright claim, the person/entity making the claim received strikes and had to compensate the person subjected to the false claim? Make abusing the system costly? Attempt to compensate victims of the copyright claim system abuse? Maybe?
Fair use is another one. I'm not a musician, but like listening to music. I recently discovered Rick Beato's YouTube videos where he breaks down "what makes this song great"<p>He plays snips of songs, analyzes them, talks about the chord progressions, the key changes, melodies, drum fills, bass lines, solos, and sometimes gets pretty deep into technical/music theory analysis. Then he'll play a bit more and then talk about that part of the song. It's clearly fair use, and if anything it promotes interest in the artist and their music, but (according to him) he's constantly getting videos blocked or copyright claims.
> Actually, probably the majority of You Tubers don’t use any music<p>This just isn't true.<p>YouTube music falls into two camps:
1) Licensed music from paid royalty sources. AudioJunkie, Epidemic, etc.
2) Video game music, because that isn't in ContentID because otherwise you'd claim people playing their games (it can absolutely be manually claimed, but creators just take the risk here).<p>I suspect Pond5 here aren't a great service.<p>I also keep on re-parsing this article because of the English, but<p>> and for many of those who do, the more ads the better as the reason for uploading a video is to make money and they really don’t care about quality.<p>If you get copyright claimed for music, you don't get the money from the video? More ads won't help? I'm so confused at to what this person is getting at, as they've meddled a diatribe about advertising with a diatribe about music copyright claims.
YouTube's copyright controls have been a constant sore spot for creators for years at this point. YouTube/Google seems uninterested in addressing the problems. It seems that improvement is either imperceptibly small or just outright doesn't exist.<p>What will it actually take for this to improve? Copyright legislation (e.g., DMCA) roll back or alteration? Content creators and/or viewers leaving the platform over it? Something else?
Twitter really needs to move into the longer form video space to give YouTube some competition. YouTube has gotten very lazy with their near monopoly on long form video and now only innovates by increasing the number of ads every quarter to show revenue growth and desperately copying TikTok.
Considering how cheap bandwidth is, and how good compression is, are we yet approaching point where it makes sense for content creators to host their own videos?<p>99% of what's on YT doesn't need to be in HD, anyway.
I would argue this is a problem that can’t be solved. At the scale of youtube, it is virtually impossible to provide quality customer services.<p>Some have proposed to break it into multiple entries, but it couldn’t help either. Each entities still have to deal with the complexity of international copyright laws.
I don't know what the solution is, but with every year it's becoming more and more apparent that the entire concept of copyright is incompatible with a global communications network.