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YouTube Now Mutes Videos With Unauthorized Copyrighted Music

Source: Mashable!

Jan 14, 2009

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Perhaps this has been going on for a while, but I’ve never noticed it before. YouTube users often create an original video using their favorite popular song as the audio. I’m afraid that they won’t be able to do that much longer, since YouTube has started muting videos that use unauthorized copyrighted music (and that pretty much means all user-created videos.)

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Gleonhard,

Jan 14, 2009

Ouch. This will really hurt. Everyone. The amateur film makers, the artists, Youtube, us - the users. Yes, sure, I know: synchronization [the use of music in a public audio-visual production] is subject to a license by the writer, publisher, label, artist (and another dozen of parties), no matter how small the use. That's the law.
BUT: where will this by-the-book implementation of these laws lead us? The answer is: criminalization.

Youtube (i.e. Google) will be virtually destroying 10s of millions of videos that millions of users have created and uploaded. I understand why Youtube would comply with demands for this, but this is really a bummer - would it not make sense for the music (publishing) industry to instead provide a non-commercial LICENSE for UGC content, and in return get traffic, referrals and shares of ad revenues? Would it not make sense for such a license to be created NOW rather then in 3 years?

Another instance of music industry control obsession that just makes you want to scream if you haven't lived under a rock for the past 5 years.

http://www.mediafuturist.com/2009/01/youtube-now-mutes-videos-with-unauthorized-copyrighted-music.html

Jcarole,

Jan 14, 2009

This is insane. Can you imagine a world where one person's ideas can be launched off another's? I saw Lessig on Colbert and I'll be damned if he didn't make his point in minutes. As soon as Colbert added writing to Lessig's book he said, "it's now worth even more on eBay" and he's right.

Our Congress is way too out of touch to fix this problem. It worries me...

Daynamarcum,

Jan 14, 2009

Bye Bye You Tube...what's the point?

Solacetech,

Jan 14, 2009

This just might be a "bump" in the road. The same way users figured out how to use Youtube as a radio, someone will figure out how to "use" youtube properly and everyone else will follow suite...