Thursday, May 2, 2013

YouTube and Copyright

3 Things I learned

  • YouTube cross examines videos for copyright violations with ones they have in their database. 
  • If copyrighted videos are uploaded to YouTube, the owners of the original are given the choice of taking it down or benefiting from the publicity.
  • YouTube analyzes over 100 years worth of videos every day.

2 Things I agree with

  • The ability for copyright owners to choose what stays or goes on YouTube
  • The fact that YouTube is working to protect copyright.

My one question

If a copyright owner removes a video from YouTube, the user who uploaded it gets a strike on their account. Would it not be beneficial if the user could submit a request to upload copyright protected videos? That way it would prevent the user from suffering and it would be one less video for YouTube to have to analyze. 

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