Question by Jack Marino: What Do You Think About YouTube Cracking Down On Movie/Music Copyright?
Recently YouTube has been cracking down on people posting movies, photos of celebrities, and music without copyright and taking down the videos (or the sound of the video saying the music is not under copyright)
So if some fan or someone makes a slideshow of a celebrity they like and use music in the background; the video gets pulled because you don’t have authorization to use the photos and the music.
How do you feel on YouTube doing this? Do you see any “harm” by people posting music with no copyright or do they have the right to be taken down?
Best answer:
Answer by Katsumi
They have no choice when the owners complain.
Give your answer to this question below!
What part of the word “Copyright” escaped your attention ?
I think Youtube has been a sellout service for years.
5 years ago I could log onto it and spend an hour maybe two, now it’s odd if I even visit twice a week.
I say it’s about time. Youtube is owned by Google and if they want to be taken seriously then they have to act like adults. Hate to break it to you but posting copyrighted material WITHOUT permission is illegal. Also I have seen enough people on Y!A say how you can pull music off youtube for your own collection, so it is just as bad as P2P services. The difference is people use it so they don’t risk getting caught as easily.
YouTube owns their service and can establish and enforce any rules they wish. That is really as far as all this needs to go.
They will act in their own best interests. If they suspect that certain activities are likely to expose them to legal difficulties, they will stop those activities. That is probably the basis for this.
Youtube is cracking down on idiots. If I post music, I can easily download it. If VEVO posts music, I download the video, I rip the audio, I have music.
Only the idiots can’t crack music, but soon it’ll evolve where when you download videos, you get a virus (Possibly). I dunno. They shouldn’t even be trying so hard, waste of money, no result.
Consider it “fighting for its life”.
If YouTube continues to let random members upload materials for which the members have no copyright ownership or license, and YouTube does NOT remove it upon complaint by the copyright owners (or in conformity to existing settlement agreements and partnerships), then YouTube would ITSELF be liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in copyright infringement lawsuits.
Until someone gets Congress (and the Bern Convention) to change the copyright laws to allow digital publishing without a license, the courts are going to be filled with cases against ISPs, file-sharing and uploading members who didn’t have permission to publish a copyrighted work.