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rewboss
On May 13, 5:49 am, BionTimeWorks wrote:
The procedure works like this: Any infringing video that isn't
Copyright owners who find their content on YouTube have the right to
- ignore it
Copyright owners have the perfect right to allow certain videos and
Obviously, YouTube does care about money, since (contrary to popular
> not partners.
copyright law. Partner videos are vetted before they even go public,
so if you do see partner videos with third-party material in them,
they have permission to use it (or if they don't, they risk losing
their partner status, which I have see happen in a couple of cases).
detected by the automatic content ID system is taken down if and when
the copyright owner orders it taken down: it's as simple as that. If
the copyright owner does not submit a complaint, the video is not
taken down. YouTube cannot know whether the copyright owner doesn't
mind the video being up, or simply doesn't know of its existence.
decide what happens to it. They can:
- ask YouTube to monetize it to pay for the licence the uploader
didn't purchase
- order YouTube to mute or disable the video.
disallow others. YouTube must comply with the owners' wishes,
regardless of how many views the video has or how much money it's
generating for whom. If YouTube were to ignore any such orders and
allow a monetized video to stay online, the copyright owner could take
both YouTube AND the person who uploaded the video (whose contact
details YouTube has, if they are a partner) to court and sue them not
just for the unpaid licencing fee, but also for all the ad revenue
that video generated.
belief) it doesn't have access to Google's billions and is very
expensive to run. But what YouTube cares about more is simply staying
in business. Currently, there is a lawsuit hanging over YouTube's
head, which still hasn't been resolved: Viacom is hoping to sue
YouTube for encouraging copyright infringement, to the tune of one
billion dollars.