TL;DR: for a whole decade YouTube allowed a copyright troll to claim all the rights on a recording of a washing machine end cycle chime
The account of the copyright troll is still standing and it’s not permanently banned
IMHO in this case YouTube should permanently ban at the first offense any copyright troll that maliciously claim as their property something that’s in the public domain
Also: if it wasn’t that it affected a big streamer with lots of followers, YouTube would have ignored the problem
What does someone have to do to prove to youtube they own it?
From what I saw that you just need to claim it by stating that’s yours, only risking to get sued by the original owner.
Brb, claiming bird voices
In 2021, YouTube announced that it had invested “hundreds of millions of dollars” to create content management tools, of which Content ID quickly emerged as the platform’s go-to solution to detect and remove copyrighted materials.
Content ID was introduced in 2021? Only 3 years ago? I thought it was significantly older.
Dunno if they meant something different or typoed the year.
Meanwhile, I am permanently banned from YouTube for uploading a 45 second clip of an episode of Star Wars Rebels as a private video to share with my kids, after we just (legally) watched it and they thought it was cool.
Such a good system.
That’s it! When I grow up I won’t become an astronaut or firefighter. I’m going to become a copyright troll!
I recommend people to read the comments in that thread, too. A lot of them are rather insightful; they get it - the problem is not just Google being a cheapstake, but also the copyright laws themselves.
This one is IMO specially insightful:
… and that is the strategy, right? It is cheaper for them [YouTube] to have a botched process that most people will not even try to fight, then to become more sophisticated (i.e., involve more actual humans) in order to preempt complaints. Alphabet / Google / YouTube are so big they can literally just ignore their users and still get away with it.
Yeah the DMCA really fucked things up for creative work. It’s way too easy to take down things you don’t like fraudulently.
