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YouTube CEO Says EU's Proposed Copyright Regulation Financially Impossible (googleblog.com)
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has again hit out at proposed new European Union copyright rules which she claims is impossible for a platform like YouTube to comply with, and if done so, could harm the creative industries. Wojcicki said the European Parliament's vote in favor of an overhaul to copyright law two months ago is "unrealistic" because owners often disagree on who owns the rights to online material. In a blog post, she wrote: Take the global music hit "Despacito." This video contains multiple copyrights, ranging from sound recording to publishing rights. Although YouTube has agreements with multiple entities to license and pay for the video, some of the rights holders remain unknown. That uncertainty means we might have to block videos like this to avoid liability under article 13. Multiply that risk with the scale of YouTube, where more than 400 hours of video are uploaded every minute, and the potential liabilities could be so large that no company could take on such a financial risk.
The consequences of article 13 go beyond financial losses. EU residents are at risk of being cut off from videos that, in just the last month, they viewed more than 90bn times. Those videos come from around the world, including more than 35m EU channels, and they include language classes and science tutorials as well as music videos. We welcome the chance to work with policymakers and the industry to develop a solution within article 13 that protects rights holders while also allowing the creative economy to thrive. This could include more comprehensive licensing agreements, collaboration with rights holders to identify who owns what, and smart rights management technology, similar to Content ID.
The consequences of article 13 go beyond financial losses. EU residents are at risk of being cut off from videos that, in just the last month, they viewed more than 90bn times. Those videos come from around the world, including more than 35m EU channels, and they include language classes and science tutorials as well as music videos. We welcome the chance to work with policymakers and the industry to develop a solution within article 13 that protects rights holders while also allowing the creative economy to thrive. This could include more comprehensive licensing agreements, collaboration with rights holders to identify who owns what, and smart rights management technology, similar to Content ID.
YouTube can just block all of the EU and watch the hilarity.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Block Youtube, where instead it takes you to a page where you can write an angry letter to the people responsible for YouTube being blocked.
It would be really interesting to see what effect blocking YouTube had on a modern society. Riots? Mass adoption of VPN? Meh?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Only to present approved EU content.
Anything not approved will be a copyright or content problem.
Welcome to EU censorship.
No freedom of speech. No freedom to publish. No freedom to comment on content.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Or youtube can stop stealing everyone's music, streaming it for free, and making all of the copyright infringement profit for themselves.
For some reason youtube is the only company that can outright steal everyone's stuff, and sell it all for their own profit.
If I did that at the swap meet with burned CD's I'd go to jail.
No-one above the law. Look at this example: "Although YouTube has agreements with multiple entities to license and pay for the video, some of the rights holders remain unknown. ".
Yeah, that's the same with abandonware. Or even in hobbyist music I wrote which I can't release for exactly this reason. Same rules for everyone. Either campaign to remove those rules for everyone, or suck it up and comply. One or the other.
Fuck 'em.
I congratulate the MIT for reinventing the bicycle... well, magnetic tunnel junction. Beg for grants and investor money more
YouTube doesn't seem to understand this is by design. The whole point of article 13 is to kill off online distribution and return the EU to the good old golden age of CD sales. Why bother competing when you can buy the laws?
So YouTube - who makes billions of dollars for showing whatever media anyone decides to post (regardless of if they have the rights to or not) is now complaining that they will have to put in place substantial resources to comply with the actual laws - sucks to be them, this is what traditional content providers have had to do since forever.
If their business model cannot sustain the costs to operate it properly and within the law then perhaps there is not really a viable business there or that they cannot roll around in the piles of cash like they do now.
The EU is in the process of strangling its own economy with rules that the rest of the world would go broke trying to comply with. Enjoy your GMO-free, music-free, Internet-free existence. We will gladly honor your right to be forgotten.
YouTube (Alphabet/Google, actually; stop kidding yourselves) — and the rest of the Valley monsters — have demonstrated that they are entirely capable of precisely moderating the content they host. They do so every day as their finely honed wrongthink detectors isolate every case of "offensive" content. So the argument that this EU requirement is some insurmountable burden is farcical. Unlike the deplorables they enthusiastically hunt down 24/7 with no complaint whatsoever about the financial feasibility, they are simply uninterested in enforcing EU copyright laws.
Well too fucking bad. You people made yourselves the universal go-to moderators in your crusade to safe space the Internet. Content owners won't let you pretend you're not capable of applying the same facilities in service of protecting their IP.
And this aggressive push for extreme IP polices coming from the EU should be no surprise to anyone. Consolidating power in Brussels could only amplify this rent seeking behavior. People heard the warnings of exactly this and pretended otherwise because damn all knuckle-draggers that don't want a giant all-caring all-providing European super government.
Well, here you go motherfuckers. Enjoy.
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that might be about right for the amount of tax that it pays. Interesting how that might happen!
The game may have the music rights must people making the let's plays may have to do there own licensing for it.
Just like how licensing for bars works.
This video contains multiple copyrights, ranging from sound recording to publishing rights
So all it boils down to is that companies will have to work a bit harder to earn their billions.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
Because of the GDPR, and the fact that Europeans can sue US sites even if they are not doing business on their turf, I just have any requests from EU sites get redirected to a "sorry, we do not do business with you, go away" web page.
Maybe YouTube should do the same. Especially how the EU views Google as their whipping boy.
The crazy EU leftists going after the power of the crazy US leftists. *Gets Popcorn*
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
When I look at most music, movies, it is mostly coming from corporations which anyway will comply and be able to upload stuff in youtube : What IP is not coming from the US, is coming from the big corp, even the "pew die pie" of Europe are incorporated and will only have that as a nuisance cost. There is nigh an indy scene in EU which really participate that much in the economy globally. In other word, the ONLY people it may stops, are the average folk uploading a video they made themselves - economic value being very low - OK maybe a few web cam and microphone equipment. Basically the economy will not suffer a iota.
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Just block those videos to redirect to pirate sites, please.
I'm tired of looking for a live stream of a minor sporting event only to get it telling me to go visit some pirate sports site.
Fix that crap.
And It would be good if they removed all the 240p and lower resolution phone videos.
...if copyrights only lasted a sane amount of time, say, 10 years or so, with a couple of optional 10 year extensions. Then the long tail of potential rights holders in a given work would dramatically reduce, making systems such as this much more feasible to manage.
Boo.
> Too long to be fair use, and it's the centre point of the music anyway.
You're thinking of one type fair use. If you're writing a research paper, you can use a short section from another research paper. "A short section" is only ONE of several types of fair use though.
Two other fair use elements are "transformative" and, most importantly, market for the original work. If you made a rave song, using sampled audio from a newscast, that's probably okay because it's completely transformative. You can use the ENTIRE original work and it can still be fair use. See Kelly vs Arriba and other cases.
Another element, probably the most important, is the effect of your use on the market value of the original work. Will people buy your song INSTEAD OF buying the TV show? If not, that has two effects:
It makes it probably fair use.
It means actual damages* would be $0 anyway, so it doesn't *matter* if it's infringing.
If your song parodies or comments on the show, if it says something about contemporary culture as exemplified by the show, that may be fair use.
There are many factors to consider for fair use. If the show was a stand-up comedy skit and you used most of it to make a comedy song, that would probably infringe. I'd bet that you're aong is transformative enough that it doesn't compete with the prior work or damage its market value, though.
* Statutory damages are a thing. I won't go into that here.
Rights holders will quickly work together for licensing purposes if they don't earn revenue from Youtube.
Expect it to take 6 months or less.
Ignore the whining, streamlining copyright handling, rights management, abandoned works, etc. is a necessary public good 50 years in the making.
Fixing copyright terms to a fixed time-span at creation date or first publication date if within 5 years of creation is also much needed. No ex post facto extensions after first publication date or 5 years after creation.
Limited duration should be limited and not extended well beyond 3 generations of people born when the work was first published. It's not perpetual copyright.
Also, importantly a standardized way to legally use a public domain frame taken from a public domain film without fear of trademark infringement legal actions. A legally accepted simple disclaimer for example, the Donald Duck cartoons made during the 1940s for the US government which are in the public domain. One should be able to simply use a frame from the film with a "Public Domain, not associated with trademark owner ____" message should be sufficient.
What!??? Transformative only means that the new work is eligible for its own copyright, not that the original falls under fair use. Criticism = parody under fair use guidelines, so that falls under commentary, not transformation.
See for example Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 U.S. 569 (1994) regarding transformative fair use. Also many earlier rulings.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/sup...
There is a big difference between criticism and parody in fair use law. One can criticize something without copying it. Parody by it's very nature requires the characteristic elements of the work. Therefore, a criticism does not necessarily have a fair reason to copy; a parody does because the parody cannot exist without copying.
They should have thought about that in the beginning. Poor babies, having to pay the piper for their own arrogance/lack of foresight. My heart doesn't weep. Google can suck it in general, and I hope they have to pay every freaking penny.
If there is no match to existing works, the new content becomes part of the copyright database with the uploader as the defacto copyright holder, transferable if needed.
If a copyright owner disputes ownership of content they will need to upload their own content to potentially replace whatever was flagged as the original, which will propagate the change down to all related work, and update any monetisation chains in the process.
Failure to upload original content would cancel any changes.
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They allowed a bot to hijack a demo video of a game I wrote ALL the content for because of the FIRST FOUR SECONDS of silence.
So sad when they have to follow actual law.
This is what happens when we have "democracy" which attracts strebers and suckups instead of talent.
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& Buttchuggers like c6..
Consider the complexity illustrated in this article. This is just part of what I call the coming "complexity collapse." It is inevitable as governments, businesses, and technology continue to add more and more rules, regulations, laws, procedures, devices, patches, processes, obligations, etc.
E Proelio Veritas.
No way are elected officials beyond the scope of regulations set forth by regulations make by civil servants.
Maybe a quick civics lesson for you is in order?
The EU is not a dictatorship, and the updates to the Copyright Directive, including Articles 11 and 13, are not in effect yet.
This article at EFF describes with this only parliament-approved draft directive, how the entire process works.