| > Host only original content of which you or your registered users are the declared copyright holders. Good luck proving what copyright everything that your users upload has. Such systems cost billions of dollars to develop and are prone to abuse. > it were truly YouTube and forbade uploading of any derived content Most content is in some way derived. Forbidding such things would effectively eliminate gaming channels, political channels, music channels, review channels, podcasts etc. > MP3 sites might be more like SoundCloud You do realize the RIAA is not particularly happy about SoundCloud either, right? And much content on there can still be described as 'derived'. > I find it difficult to be moved by the protests of people who just want to post other people's creations. I find it difficult to be moved by copyright maximalists, who used other people's work to get where thy are, but now insist that they should profit from a piece of work 70+ years after the author is dead. |