How does YouTube solve the copyright problem
The copyright is always a controversial thing. YouTube comes out an idea recently to solve the problem. If a YouTube user uploaded a movie clip that contains copyrighted music identified by YouTube, the video will be muted and show the message below the video:
This video contains an audio track that has not been authorised by all copyright holders. The audio has been disabled.
Although, this is a good way to solve the copyright related disputes, the users might feel uncomfortable about it. The uploaders would upload to some other platforms and influence the popularity of YouTube. The watchers may as well annoyed by silent videos. Accordingly, this may not be the ultimate way of solving this problem.
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ivsyd
Well, it might be a beginning of the end for the YouTube. With the dozens of other similar platforms, YouTube’s advantage is the number of videos uploaded to it (because it’s was the first major player in the field and it used to be both easy-to-use and convenient). As it stands now, their way to address copyright issues could cause a lot of inconvenience and who knows, maybe a lot of its users will abandon the platform because of that.
What’s really interesting is that potentially any other platform which could grow with the YouTube’s dawn sooner or later would face the same problem. However, they would have a case study handy…
Jan 19th, 2009
Corban
It’s a sticky situation for YouTube. I’ve been a victim of this copyright problem with them. Setting a photo montage to music for a memorial seems harmless, but I guess I’m technically infringing a copy right using IZ’s “Over the Rainbow” without permission – which the grieving family requested. So what did I do? Posted it to Vimeo instead which is a far better player and they don’t monitor copyrighted music yet. Vimeo is now getting that traffic and all future traffic for any videos that I have copyrighted music on. I imagine that Vimeo and the other players will follow in YouTube’s footsteps regarding copyright monitoring, but for now I’ll be avoiding YouTube.
Jan 19th, 2009
Margery Nabors
In my recent experience uploading a video to YouTube with copyrighted music, I received the following notification:
“Dear___,
Your video,_____, may have content that is owned or licensed by UMG.
No action is required on your part; however, if you are interested in learning how this affects your video, please visit the Content ID Matches section of your account for more information.
Sincerely,
- The YouTube Team”
Notably, the video is still viewable on YouTube, but is tagged with an ad that enables the viewer to purchase the music off of iTunes or Amazon.
As it relates to the latter action taken by YouTube, I think artists (esp. lesser known ones) would appreciate the potential exposure a viral video could garner for them.
Jan 24th, 2009
Black4blue
Hey I got the message above! What should I do? Is it possible to want permission from the owner of the copyright? Or shoul I delete the video? Please write a short and clear answer. Cause my English is not good, especially about copyright stuff.
Nov 16th, 2010
sameh
Please i want solve copyright problem in my videos , so i am do this videos to entertainment not to make money , Please tell me how i make a videos not have this problem
May 12th, 2011
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